treewidget

I have a class that inherits QTreeWidget. How can I find the currently selected row? Usually I connect signals to slots this way: connect(myButton, SIGNAL(triggered(bool)), this, SLOT(myClick())); However, I can't find anything similar for QTreeWidget->QTreeWidgetItem . The only way I found is to redefine the mousePressEvent of the QTreeWidget class like this: void MyQTreeWidget::mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent *e){ QTreeView::mousePressEvent(e); const QModelIndex index = indexAt(e->pos()); if (!index.isValid()) { const Qt::KeyboardModifiers modifiers = QApplication::keyboardModifiers(); if (!