Qt: Defining a custom event type

Question

I have created a custom event in my Qt application by subclassing QEvent.

class MyEvent : public QEvent
{
  public:
    MyEvent() : QEvent((QEvent::Type)20         


        

Answer 1

If the event-type identifies your specific class, i'd put it there:

class MyEvent : public QEvent {
public:
    static const QEvent::Type myType = static_cast(2000);
    // ...
};

// usage:
if(evt->type() == MyEvent::myType) {
    // ...
}