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clay
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8 years ago
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I can only drill down so far into the object tree - then what?

I am have a problem getting the value of a QT object checkbox so I can see whether I need to "check" it or not.  The problem I am encountering is that the checkbox is in a list of checkboxes containe...
  • clay's avatar
    clay
    8 years ago

    As I learn to use the tool, I have discovered two things:

    1. You can turn name mapping generation off for performance purposes, but then you may not be able to drill-down into the objects (because the objects are not mapped).

    2.  You can turn name mapping generation on, which will allow you to drill down.  However, this will be a performance hit.  In our case that hit is substantial.

     

    I have not yet learned how to "throttle" the name mapping to find some sort of middle ground.  Manual mapping is tedious, but may be the solution for us.

     

    I will close out this issue.

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
8 years ago

What you are probably working with, as you noted, is that it's not a strict QCheckBox object but a list component that contains check list boxes.  Since you can reference the parent object, can you pull up a screenshot of the Object Browser properties of the parent object? That will help determine what kind of component it is and if there are properties like "Items" or something that will allow you to work with the check boxes.

  • clay's avatar
    clay
    Contributor
    8 years ago

    As I learn to use the tool, I have discovered two things:

    1. You can turn name mapping generation off for performance purposes, but then you may not be able to drill-down into the objects (because the objects are not mapped).

    2.  You can turn name mapping generation on, which will allow you to drill down.  However, this will be a performance hit.  In our case that hit is substantial.

     

    I have not yet learned how to "throttle" the name mapping to find some sort of middle ground.  Manual mapping is tedious, but may be the solution for us.

     

    I will close out this issue.