Problem with QList

shahriar25

Hi
I am workng on a MusicPlayer and I have categorized the songs given to the app and I wanted to store all thetracks in an album in a QList but I got an error:

code:
QList<QStringList> *myList = new QList<QStringList>;
QStringList temp;
temp.append("firstTrack");
myList->append(temp);
myList->at(0).append("secondTrack");

error:
passing 'const QStringList' as 'this' argument discards qualifiers [-fpermissive]
myList->at(0).append("secondTrack");
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What am I doing wrong?
Is there a better way than mine to do this?
Any hep would be appreciated;

Gerd

QList<>.at() retruns a const ref to the list-element
use
(*myList)[0].append("secondTrack");
instead.

shahriar25

Hi
thank you for answering @Gerd and @Ratzz
both of them worked:
QList<QStringList> *myList = new QList<QStringList>;
(*myList)[0].append("secondTrack");

and

QList<QStringList*> myList = new QList<QStringList>;

But according to Qt Docs myList->at() is faster than myList[] if I am not mistaking.

Gerd

QList<QStringList*> myList = new QList<QStringList>;

won't work, must be
QList<QStringList*> myList = new QList<QStringList *>;

If you use the List in that way you have to create the list elements with
new QStringList
and also take care of deleting the QStringlist by yourself if removed from the list.

But according to Qt Docs myList->at() is faster than myList[] if I am not mistaking.

I don't think you would notice any difference here until you have realy big lists.

btw, if you setup the stringlist completly before adding it to the list would also work in your code:

QList<QStringList> *myList = new QList<QStringList>;
QStringList temp;
temp.append("firstTrack");
temp.append("secondTrack");
myList->append(temp);

SGaist

Hi,

There's usually no need to allocate QList nor QStringList on the heap. Do you have any reasons to do that ?