Question about qt objects deletion

[MI]

MyForm(QWidget *parent = 0) : QWidget(parent) i sow this expression many times and i didn't get it ....can you explaine please
and what do you mean by the class already deletes its children
and last i am sorry about those too many questions i am a confused newbie

[anda_skoa]

MyForm(QWidget *parent = 0) : QWidget(parent) i sow this expression many times and i didn't get it ....can you explaine please

This is a constructor of a C++ class called MyForm.
It takes one argument of type QWidget*, named parent, and has a default value of 0.
The parent argument is passed on to the base class constructor.

and what do you mean by the class already deletes its children

Because you are passing "this" as the parent of the children. QObject subclasses such as QWidget and thus MyForm delete their children when they are deleted.

Cheers,
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[MI]

new question : by doing this " MyForm(QWidget *parent = 0) : QWidget(parent) " what are we really saying to the compiler ...
and please putup with me

[sulliwk06]

new question : by doing this " MyForm(QWidget *parent = 0) : QWidget(parent) " what are we really saying to the compiler ...
and please putup with me

Whatever widget you create an instance of this form in, when you call "MyForm myForm(this);" You are saying that the widget you called it from is the parent of myForm. When that parent gets deleted, it will call the destructor on all of its children causing a chain reaction.

[anda_skoa]

sulliwk06 already explained the runtime behavior created by this so here the "what are we saying to the compiler" bit:

we tell the compiler that instance of class MyForm can be constructed with zero or one argument of type QWidget*.

If no argument is passed to the constructor, then a null pointer should be assumed.

The given value (either the argument or the null pointer) should be uses as the argument of the invocation of the base class constructor.

Cheers,
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[MI]

Big thanks to every one who helped me