When is a class added to the list of moc files

[Falk Brettschneider]

Hi,

Werner Modenbach wrote:
> 
> Recently we created a class which was derived from QFrame.
> Everything worked fine until we tried to create a signal.
> The linker reclaimed for a missing reference.
> It took us a long while to find out that there is no meta object created from
> our class. Where do I tell to build a meta object. Isn't it possible to do this
> automatically when detecting signals or slots?
> 
> After we fixed this (by creating a new project and transfering the source to
> the prebuild classes - our project ist still small ;-)) now we tried to connect
> the signal to a slot of another class.
> This seend to work fine, but unfortinately when I debug until the emit
> statement the emit returns without calling the slot.
Signal-slot works only in classes that insert the Q_OBJECT macro right
at the beginning of its class definition:

class Falk : public Boss {
  Q_OBJECT
public:
  ...
};

> 
> Do I have to take care about some specialities to make this work?
Initially call ´tmake x.pro -o Makefile´. Tmake parses your sources and
headers for the Q_OBJECT macro and set the rules in your Makefile to
create and compile the meta objects. Those meta objects are inserted in
the moc_....cpp file and they are generated by a tool called ´moc´ (meta
object compiler). See the tmake-generated Makefile for rules that call
the moc.

But you don´t need to do anything except inserting Q_OBJECT.
Note: whenever you change your .pro-File, tmake is called automatically.

For further question look into the Qt documentation (section
signal&slots)

Hope that helps,
  Falk

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