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    Default How to override setEnabled(..) method of QWidget ?

    Hi,

    I have classes inherited from QWidget.

    class MyWidget : public QWidget
    {
    ----------- Methods -------
    public slots :
    void setEnabled(bool value);

    }


    QWidget* myWidget = new MyWidget(...);

    myWidget->setEnabled(false);
    // this will call to setEnabled(..) of QWidget I want it to callhere MyWidget's setEnabled(...).


    Please let me know if I am missing something here.

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    Default Re: How to override setEnabled(..) method of QWidget ?

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    Default Re: How to override setEnabled(..) method of QWidget ?

    Quote Originally Posted by anwar.qt View Post
    Please let me know if I am missing something here.
    You are missing something here.

    ...

    ...

    ...

    but you knew that. Here it is: for polymorphism to work, the overridden method has to be virtual (or pure virtual) in the parent class, which is not the case for QWidget::setEnabled(). In addition, you have to call the method using a pointer (or reference, i.e. address-of operator "&"), as you have done. So, you could sub-class QWidget and declare a virtual setEnabled() method, then sub-class that class and implement setEnabled() there. If this is too much bother for a polymorphic setEnabled(), then you'll have to cast myWidget back to a MyWidget * and then call setEnabled(), as follows:

    Qt Code:
    1. dynamic_cast<MyWidget *>(myWidget)->setEnabled(true);
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    Default Re: How to override setEnabled(..) method of QWidget ?

    When a widget's enabled property is changed, it gets a change event.
    What you could do is override QWidget::changeEvent and call your setEnabled whenever the base class' enabled gets changed.

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