c++qt

How to programmatically click a QPushButton

I am using Qt. I have a button in the page added via the Qt Creator. It is connected to the method void MyPage::on_startButton_clicked().

I want to programmatically click this button. I tried ui->startButton->clicked(), it gives,

error C2248: 'QAbstractButton::clicked' : cannot access protected member declared in class 'QAbstractButton'

Please help. Thanks!

Solution

  • Use QAbstractButton::animateClick():

    QPushButton* startButton = new QPushButton("Start");
startButton->animateClick();