CpuWidget using QCharts
Now that the base class SysInfoWidget
is ready, let's implement its first child class: CpuWidget
. We will now use the Qt Charts API to display a good-looking widget. The average CPU load will be displayed in a pie graph with a hole in the center, like a partly eaten donut where the eaten part is the percentage of the CPU used. The first step is to add a new C++ class named CpuWidget
and make it inherit SysInfoWidget
:
#include "SysInfoWidget.h" class CpuWidget : public SysInfoWidget { public: explicit CpuWidget(QWidget* parent = 0); };
In the constructor, the only parameter needed is a QWidget* parent
. Since we provided default values for the startDelayMs
and updateSeriesDelayMs
variables in SysInfoWidget
class, we get the best possible behavior; there is no need to remember it when subclassing SysInfoWidget
, but it is still easy to override it if need be.
The next step is to override the updateSeries()
function from the SysInfoWidget
class and start using...