Here is the problem:

I have a QObject based custom class which I parse as parent to another QObject based child class. I need to connect the parent's custom slot to child's custom signal in the child's constructor. The reason is that if something goes wrong on initialization of the child class it emits this signal which the parent receives and stops the app.

I found out I cannot alter the constructor like this:

@
class child : public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
child(parentClass *parent = 0);
}
@

as the *parent must be a pointer to QObject part of the parentClass. Is there any easier way I miss here other than parsing the pointer to the parentClass twice, once to its QObject part and once to the full object like this?

@
child(parentClass *p, QObject *parent = 0);
@

then calling

@
child(this,this);
@

Thanks!