Question

Can someone help with resolving this error?

QString *description = new QString;
description = *dialog.descriptionEdit->toPlainText();

error: no match for ‘operator*’ in ‘*QTextEdit::toPlainText() const()’

and when I try:

QString *description = new QString;
description = dialog.descriptionEdit->toPlainText();

error: cannot convert ‘QString’ to ‘QString*’ in assignment

Answer 1

You need this

*description = dialog.descriptionEdit->toPlainText();

otherwise you are assigning to the pointer not the object it points to. description is a pointer to QString, *description is a QString.