custom events

[wysota]

Apart from not being a custom event it exactly resembles what I want to do with my custom event. I want to have a ThemeChangeEvent upon which QWidgets can reload associated icons, background-images etc.

That's fine. I only wanted to mark, that you shouldn't post LanguageChange yourself.

The Qt documentation had already hinted me towards reimplementing QObject::event() but I had hoped that this would not be really necessary. Do I really have to reimplement this member in all classes that are supposed to be able to handle the event?

You can instead apply an event filter on every object and handle the event through that event filter, but this will be tedious. I think it will be simplest to either subclass QApplication and do the retheming directly there without propagating the event to widgets or to apply an event filter on the application object and to practically the same, just withouth subclassing.

[momesana]

I think it will be simplest to either subclass QApplication and do the retheming directly there without propagating the event to widgets or to apply an event filter on the application object and to practically the same, just withouth subclassing.

Thank you very much. I'll try that.