[SOLVED] QObject inheritance problems with operator=() method

Divitto

I know ( after some research ) that you can't directly use the = operator on classes that inherit from QObect because the operator= method is declared private by people way smarter then me in the QObject code. This may sound dumb, but is it possible to use the = operator on an object who has a ( composition ) object that inherits from QObject? Something like:
@
class foo : public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT
// some stuff...
};

class bar
{
private:
// Attributes
Foo foo;

 // some stuff...

};

int main()
{
Foo foo1 = Foo(); // not sure if this is legal
Foo foo2 = foo1; // Doesn't work

  Bar bar1 = Bar();   // are either of these legal in Qt?
  Bar bar2 = bar1;

}

@

what if all my variables in main were pointers would they work then?

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int main( )
{
Foo* foo1 = new Foo();
Foo* foo2 = foo1;

 Bar* bar1 =  new Bar();
 Bar* bar2 = bar1;

}
@

The reason i ask is i have many cases of composition in my current project, the smallest component of which, needs to be a QObject so that i can use the Signal/slot features of Qt. I apoligize if this is confusing, but i myself am confused. Please ask for clarification where/if its needed. THANKS!

dbzhang800

In short word, you can not copy a QObject or Class inherits from QObject.

Please the manual carefully http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/object.html

BTW, I don't think that, copying the QObject is needed for you, you can always use the pointer of QObject and use the smart Pointers provided by C++ or Qt.

Divitto

I'm always ready to hear another solution to a problem, what do you mean use the pointer of QObject? could you clarify or send me a link? I am also not familiar with smart pointers, i'm pretty sure most of my pointers are dumb ones :p sorry i am new to the Qt way of things i havent made it through all the documentation yet, although it has helped quite a bit :)

raven-worx

in (very) short words:
use the new keyword to create objects and assign the pointers instead of the object values.

Examples for smart pointers in Qt see QSharedPointer and QScopedPointer classes; for weak pointer use QPointer class

Divitto

Thanks for your responses. All my objects were pointers which is why i was confused as to why they wern't working. The problem ended up being that a getter method was returning a dereferenced pointer (don't ask me why) and my code was using that method throughout, which (obviously) explains why i couldn't copy it. I'm sorry this question was kind of dumb. In my defence i had been staring at my code for at least 5 hours trying to figure out what was wrong so i probably shuld have taken a break, and came back before asking for help. :p

Thank you for your patience.