Project does not build on Ubuntu 16.04.01

[gstark31897]

Project does not build on Ubuntu 16.04.01

[gstark667]

https://github.com/gstark31897/Akai/blob/master/client/mainwindow.cpp check out how addFriendAction is constructed and look at all the call to connect for it, basically, the QAction object needs to be constructed and the qobject's triggered signal needs to be connected to whatever the current qobject's constructor is using.

I'm not sure how i want to manage the contributors yet, so make a fork of the repo, make a branch in you fork (off of develop please) and make a pull request once you're finished.

Feel free to ask any questions if you get stuck.

[zackerydev]

I edited the project and it now compiles for me on Ubuntu, along with the edits found at https://github.com/zgriesinger/Akai I had to run "sudo apt-get install qtmultimedia5-dev" to install some dependencies to fix audio issues. Functionality may or may not work but at least it compiles.

[gstark667]

So the changes look good so far, you are right in suspecting that it won't work though.

connect(addFriendAction, &QAction::triggered, m_addFriendDialog, &AddFriendDialog::show);

above is an example for connecting a signal to a slot (read up on this in the qt docs if you havent yet)
The initial implementation that you changed was using a shortcut that only wrote out the latter half, basically you have to add the connect call in or the buttons won't do anything when they're pushed.