Allow entry in QLineEdit only within range of QDoubleValidator

Question

I have a set of QLineEdits that are supposed to accept double values within a certain range, (e.g., -15 to 15).

I have something along these lines when

Answer 1

I came across this solution when searching for a solution, which supports scientific as well as standard notation. It is inspired by the suggestion by Petri Pyöriä, here is a solution, which uses the signal editingFinished.

I have overloaded validate to ensure that QValidator::Acceptable is returned even when the value is out of range. This triggers the editingFinished, which I use for truncating the output. In this way, both Scientific and Standard notation can be used exactly as implemented by QDoubleValidator

#include 

class TruncationValidator : public QDoubleValidator
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    explicit TruncationValidator(QObject *parent = 0) : QDoubleValidator(parent) {
      connect(this->parent(), SIGNAL(editingFinished()), this, SLOT(truncate()));
    }
    TruncationValidator(double bottom, double top, int decimals, QObject * parent) : QDoubleValidator(bottom, top, decimals, parent) {
      connect(this->parent(), SIGNAL(editingFinished()), this, SLOT(truncate()));
    }

    QValidator::State validate(QString &s, int &i) const {
      QValidator::State state = QDoubleValidator::validate(s,i);

      if (s.isEmpty()) {
        return state;
      }

      bool ok;
      double d = s.toDouble(&ok);

      if (ok) {
        // QDoubleValidator returns QValidator::Intermediate if out of bounds
        return QValidator::Acceptable;
      }
      return state;
    }

private slots:
    void truncate() {
      QLineEdit* le = dynamic_cast(parent());
      if (le) {
        QString s = le->text();
        bool ok;
        double d = s.toDouble(&ok);
        if (ok) {
          if (d > this->top() || d < this->bottom()) {
            d = std::min(d, this->top());
            d = std::max(d, this->bottom());
            le->setText(QString::number(d));
          }
        }
      }
    }
private:
};