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After we have replaced all the dialogs, we are ready to begin replacing the Main Window. As mentioned above, we will replace the existing XmMainWindow and popup-menu heirarchy with Qt Main Window Classes.
We will use Qt Designer to design our new main window.
The description for the Main Window is saved as mainwindow.ui. We add this file to the project file and regenerate the Makefile. The uic utility generates the code for our Main Window, which is then compiled and linked into our application.
Qt Designer also created the mainwindow.ui.h file. We need to add the implementation for our Main Window to this skeleton implementation.
We begin by adding the necessary includes for QApplication and QMotifWidget.
We need includes for the Motif callback structs and the XmdPrint widget.
We are now ready to add implementations for the slots in our Main Window. We have one slot per menu item. Each slot will call the existing callback functions found in todo.cpp and actions.cpp.
| File menu | ||
|---|---|---|
| New | MainWindow::fileNew() | calls the New() callback |
| Open | MainWindow::fileOpen() | calls the Open() callback |
| Save | MainWindow::fileSave() | calls the SaveIt() callback |
| Save As | MainWindow::fileSaveAs() | calls the Save() callback |
| MainWindow::filePrint() | calls the ShowPrintDialog() callback | |
| Exit | MainWindow::fileExit() | calls QApplication::quit() |
| Selected menu | ||
| Properties | MainWindow::selProperties() | calls the EditPage() callback |
| New | MainWindow::selNewPage() | calls the NewPage() callback |
| Delete to Trash | MainWindow::selDeletePage() | calls the DeletePage() callback |
We need to add forward declarations for these callbacks before we can use them.
Each of the existing callback functions takes three arguments. We pass NULL to all of the arguments in this example (with a few exceptions, see below). The existing code does not rely on any of the arguments. Each slot implementation is a single line calling the related callback function. The code is not very interesting and would just take up space, so we've omitted it.
There are four exceptions to the above. The Open(), Save(), EditPage() and DeletePage() callbacks accept a pointer to the toplevel QWidget as argument 2 (the client_data argument). For these four functions, we pass this as the second argument, which is a toplevel MainWindow derived from QMainWindow.
The next step is to use the new Main Window in our application. The changes needed in todo.cpp are large due to the large amount of code being removed.
First, we add the include for our new Main Window.
We can cleanup the Motif includes, since many of them are no longer needed.
The QuitAppl() and manageCB() callbacks are not needed any more, so we remove them. We do not need the global shell variable either. We remove it and all references to it in the New(), Save() and Open() callbacks.
In main(), we make the large changes. First, we use our new MainWindow instead of QMotifWidget with XmMainWindow.
We will now use QMotifWidget to create the XmNotebook widget.
We remove all of the code used to create the Motif menus. The remaining code in main() is self-explanatory.
Our application is now using QMainWindow instead of XmMainWindow. After we build the project, the application runs and operates as expected.
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