hello! i have a simple child widgets question

Hello. I'm trying to make a widget and a child widget. I'd like Widget2 to be a child of Widget. Would anybody be able to check if I'm doing it right. Thanx

main.cpp:

Code:

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Widget2::Widget2(Widget* parent): Widget(parent)
{
}
 
Widget::Widget(QWidget* parent): QWidget(parent)
{ 
}
......

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hfile.h

Code:

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#ifndef HFILE_H
#define HFILE_H
 
#include <QtGui>
 
class Widget : public QWidget
{
    Q_OBJECT
    public:
        Widget (QWidget* parent = 0);
    protected:
    private:
};
 
class Widget2 : public Widget
{
    Q_OBJECT
    public:
        Widget2 (Widget* QWidget);
    protected:
    private:
};
#endif

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Your code makes Widget2 inherit Widget (which, in turn inherits QWidget). This gives you an is-a relationship, i.e. Widget2 is-a Widget. This is usually not what you call a child widget.

Child widgets are widgets that have a parent. This is called a has-a relationship. The parent has-a child. For example:

Code:

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QWidget *w1, *w2;
 
  w1 = new QWidget();
  w2 = new QWidget( w1 );

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Here w1 has-a w2, i.e. w2 is a child widget to w1.

Thanx for your clarification.
So, in your example w2 is a child of w1, right?

Can any QWidget be a child of another?
For example: can QWidget be a child of QLabel, or only the other way around is allowed(because of the resaons how they inherit from one another)?

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Originally Posted by ht1

Can any QWidget be a child of another?

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Yes, but sometimes it doesn't make much sense (like making a scrollbar a child of a pushbutton).