How to delete a QObject derived class from within one of its own methods

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Keywords: Qt, deleteLater

Created: (20 Jun 2010)

Last edited: jimgilmour1 (21 Jun 2010)

In order to delete a QObject-derived class from one of its own methods, developers have to use

deleteLater();

Since this is a public slot, it can be connected to a signal or it can be just called in any method of the class.

There are no problem if a signal or a method calls more than one time QObject::deleteLater()

Beginner developers sometimes use

delete this;

and this is dangerous since the Qt event loop could invoke a method of the deleted class. Hence, the application or library will crash.

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