Y is className a member function rather than a static one ?

[sunil.thaha]

Please, don't use such ugly abbreviations.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the viewer . Anyway I will take care.

Because it wouldn't make sense. You need className() when you don't know the class name.


With inheritance mechanism, you can have a pointer that points to an instance of some class derived from a base class, but you not necessarily have to know which one and that's when you have to invoke className()

That makes sense.
But I did not find the virual keyword in the assistant. That would have given the clue...

[jacek]

But I did not find the virual keyword in the assistant.

It isn't virtual in Qt4, because it's a part of Qt3 Support module and a shorthand for "metaObject()->className()".