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QT5 Blueprints

You're reading from   QT5 Blueprints Design, build, and deploy cross-platform GUI projects using the amazingly powerful Qt 5 framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784394615
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Your First Qt Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Beautiful Cross-platform Clock 3. Cooking an RSS Reader with Qt Quick 4. Controlling Camera and Taking Photos 5. Extending Paint Applications with Plugins 6. Getting Wired and Managing Downloads 7. Parsing JSON and XML Documents to Use Online APIs 8. Enabling Your Qt Application to Support Other Languages 9. Deploying Applications on Other Devices 10. Don't Panic When You Encounter These Issues Index

Displaying errors on the status bar

First of all, there could be errors during the whole camera process and it's a good practice to make the user aware of what the error is. It can be done by a pop-up dialog and/or status bar. You don't want to alert the user to every trivial error. Therefore, it'd be better to use a pop-up dialog only for critical errors, while displaying non-critical errors and warnings on the status bar.

Qt began supporting the status bar a long time ago. The QStatusBar class is the one that provides a horizontal bar suitable for presenting status information. The status of the camera can be displayed as well and it'll be introduced in later topics.

To use the status bar, edit mainwindow.ui, right-click on MainWindow, and select Create Status Bar if it doesn't exist or was previously removed.

Then, we should declare two slots to handle the camera and image capture errors, respectively. Add these two lines to private slots in mainwindow.h:

void onCameraError...
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