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# QSpinBox Class Reference

The QSpinBox class provides a spin box widget. More...

     #include <QSpinBox>

Inherits: QAbstractSpinBox.

- List of all members, including inherited members
- Qt 3 support members

## Properties

- cleanText : const QString
- maximum : int
- minimum : int
- prefix : QString

- singleStep : int
- suffix : QString
- value : int

- 11 properties inherited from QAbstractSpinBox
- 58 properties inherited from QWidget
- 1 property inherited from QObject

## Public Functions

| QSpinBox ( QWidget * parent = 0 )
QString | cleanText () const
int | maximum () const
int | minimum () const
QString | prefix () const
void | setMaximum ( int max )
void | setMinimum ( int min )
void | setPrefix ( const QString & prefix )
void | setRange ( int minimum, int maximum )
void | setSingleStep ( int val )
void | setSuffix ( const QString & suffix )
int | singleStep () const
QString | suffix () const
int | value () const

- 28 public functions inherited from QAbstractSpinBox
- 221 public functions inherited from QWidget
- 29 public functions inherited from QObject
- 13 public functions inherited from QPaintDevice

## Public Slots

void | setValue ( int val )

- 4 public slots inherited from QAbstractSpinBox
- 19 public slots inherited from QWidget
- 1 public slot inherited from QObject

## Signals

void | valueChanged ( int i )
void | valueChanged ( const QString & text )

- 1 signal inherited from QAbstractSpinBox
- 1 signal inherited from QWidget
- 1 signal inherited from QObject

## Protected Functions

virtual QString | textFromValue ( int value ) const
virtual int | valueFromText ( const QString & text ) const

## Reimplemented Protected Functions

virtual bool | event ( QEvent * event )
virtual void | fixup ( QString & input ) const
virtual QValidator::State | validate ( QString & text, int & pos ) const

- 20 protected functions inherited from QAbstractSpinBox
- 37 protected functions inherited from QWidget
- 8 protected functions inherited from QObject
- 1 protected function inherited from QPaintDevice

### Additional Inherited Members

- 4 static public members inherited from QWidget
- 7 static public members inherited from QObject
- 1 protected slot inherited from QWidget

## Detailed Description

The QSpinBox class provides a spin box widget.

QSpinBox is designed to handle integers and discrete sets of values (e.g., month names); use QDoubleSpinBox for floating point values.

QSpinBox allows the user to choose a value by clicking the up/down buttons or pressing up/down on the keyboard to increase/decrease the value currently displayed. The user can also type the value in manually. The spin box supports integer values but can be extended to use different strings with validate(), textFromValue() and valueFromText().

Every time the value changes QSpinBox emits the valueChanged() signals. The current value can be fetched with value() and set with setValue().

Clicking the up/down buttons or using the keyboard accelerator's up and down arrows will increase or decrease the current value in steps of size singleStep(). If you want to change this behaviour you can reimplement the virtual function stepBy(). The minimum and maximum value and the step size can be set using one of the constructors, and can be changed later with setMinimum(), setMaximum() and setSingleStep().

Most spin boxes are directional, but QSpinBox can also operate as a circular spin box, i.e. if the range is 0-99 and the current value is 99, clicking "up" will give 0 if wrapping() is set to true. Use setWrapping() if you want circular behavior.

The displayed value can be prepended and appended with arbitrary strings indicating, for example, currency or the unit of measurement. See setPrefix() and setSuffix(). The text in the spin box is retrieved with text() (which includes any prefix() and suffix()), or with cleanText() (which has no prefix(), no suffix() and no leading or trailing whitespace).

It is often desirable to give the user a special (often default) choice in addition to the range of numeric values. See setSpecialValueText() for how to do this with QSpinBox.

| A spin box shown in the Windows XP widget style.
| A spin box shown in the Plastique widget style.
| A spin box shown in the Macintosh widget style.

### Subclassing QSpinBox

If using prefix(), suffix(), and specialValueText() don't provide enough control, you subclass QSpinBox and reimplement valueFromText() and textFromValue(). For example, here's the code for a custom spin box that allows the user to enter icon sizes (e.g., "32 x 32"):

     int IconSizeSpinBox::valueFromText(const QString &text) const
     {
         QRegExp regExp(tr("(\\d+)(\\s*[xx]\\s*\\d+)?"));

         if (regExp.exactMatch(text)) {
             return regExp.cap(1).toInt();
         } else {
             return 0;
         }
     }

     QString IconSizeSpinBox::textFromValue(int value) const
     {
         return tr("%1 x %1").arg(value);
     }

See the Icons example for the full source code.

See also QDoubleSpinBox, QDateTimeEdit, QSlider, and Spin Boxes Example.

## Property Documentation

### cleanText : const QString

This property holds the text of the spin box excluding any prefix, suffix, or leading or trailing whitespace.

Access functions:

QString | cleanText () const

See also text, QSpinBox::prefix, and QSpinBox::suffix.

### maximum : int

This property holds the maximum value of the spin box.

When setting this property the minimum is adjusted if necessary, to ensure that the range remains valid.

The default maximum value is 99.

Access functions:

int | maximum () const
void | setMaximum ( int max )

See also setRange() and specialValueText.

### minimum : int

This property holds the minimum value of the spin box.

When setting this property the maximum is adjusted if necessary to ensure that the range remains valid.

The default minimum value is 0.

Access functions:

int | minimum () const
void | setMinimum ( int min )

See also setRange() and specialValueText.

### prefix : QString

This property holds the spin box's prefix.

The prefix is prepended to the start of the displayed value. Typical use is to display a unit of measurement or a currency symbol. For example:

     sb->setPrefix("$");

To turn off the prefix display, set this property to an empty string. The default is no prefix. The prefix is not displayed when value() == minimum() and specialValueText() is set.

If no prefix is set, prefix() returns an empty string.

Access functions:

QString | prefix () const
void | setPrefix ( const QString & prefix )

See also suffix(), setSuffix(), specialValueText(), and setSpecialValueText().

### singleStep : int

This property holds the step value.

When the user uses the arrows to change the spin box's value the value will be incremented/decremented by the amount of the singleStep. The default value is 1. Setting a singleStep value of less than 0 does nothing.

Access functions:

int | singleStep () const
void | setSingleStep ( int val )

### suffix : QString

This property holds the suffix of the spin box.

The suffix is appended to the end of the displayed value. Typical use is to display a unit of measurement or a currency symbol. For example:

     sb->setSuffix(" km");

To turn off the suffix display, set this property to an empty string. The default is no suffix. The suffix is not displayed for the minimum() if specialValueText() is set.

If no suffix is set, suffix() returns an empty string.

Access functions:

QString | suffix () const
void | setSuffix ( const QString & suffix )

See also prefix(), setPrefix(), specialValueText(), and setSpecialValueText().

### value : int

This property holds the value of the spin box.

setValue() will emit valueChanged() if the new value is different from the old one.

Access functions:

int | value () const
void | setValue ( int val )

Notifier signal:

void | valueChanged ( int i )
void | valueChanged ( const QString & text )

## Member Function Documentation

### QSpinBox::QSpinBox ( QWidget * parent = 0 )

Constructs a spin box with 0 as minimum value and 99 as maximum value, a step value of 1. The value is initially set to 0. It is parented to parent.

See also setMinimum(), setMaximum(), and setSingleStep().

### bool QSpinBox::event ( QEvent * event )`[virtual protected]`

Reimplemented from QObject::event().

### void QSpinBox::fixup ( QString & input ) const`[virtual protected]`

Reimplemented from QAbstractSpinBox::fixup().

### void QSpinBox::setRange ( int minimum, int maximum )

Convenience function to set the minimum, and maximum values with a single function call.

     setRange(minimum, maximum);

is equivalent to:

     setMinimum(minimum);
     setMaximum(maximum);

See also minimum and maximum.

### QString QSpinBox::textFromValue ( int value ) const`[virtual protected]`

This virtual function is used by the spin box whenever it needs to display the given value. The default implementation returns a string containing value printed in the standard way using QWidget::locale().toString(), but with the thousand separator removed. Reimplementations may return anything. (See the example in the detailed description.)

Note: QSpinBox does not call this function for specialValueText() and that neither prefix() nor suffix() should be included in the return value.

If you reimplement this, you may also need to reimplement valueFromText() and validate()

See also valueFromText(), validate(), and QLocale::groupSeparator().

### QValidator::State QSpinBox::validate ( QString & text, int & pos ) const`[virtual protected]`

Reimplemented from QAbstractSpinBox::validate().

### void QSpinBox::valueChanged ( int i )`[signal]`

This signal is emitted whenever the spin box's value is changed. The new value's integer value is passed in i.

### void QSpinBox::valueChanged ( const QString & text )`[signal]`

This is an overloaded function.

The new value is passed literally in text with no prefix() or suffix().

### int QSpinBox::valueFromText ( const QString & text ) const`[virtual protected]`

This virtual function is used by the spin box whenever it needs to interpret text entered by the user as a value.

Subclasses that need to display spin box values in a non-numeric way need to reimplement this function.

Note: QSpinBox handles specialValueText() separately; this function is only concerned with the other values.

See also textFromValue() and validate().