I have done a few small things with Qt and last week I decide I was going to try to do some serious Qt programming to get a better feel for how it all works. I have succesfully made my own widgets extending the QWidget class.

I am trying to write a new class call wirelessApp. It is an extension of QApplication.

I have no constructor so I assumed it would inherit the constructor from QApplication yet I get the following error when I make an instance of this class:

wirelessapp.h:27: base `QApplication' with only non-default constructor in class without a constructor

Usually when you create an instance of QApplication you would do something like this:

QApplication myApp(argc, argv) ;
Passing in the argc and argv from the main function (ie the command line options) because there are some common command line options that work in every Qt program. Now on mine I have a class that is declared:class wirelessApp : public QApplication

To get an instance of that I assumed wirelessApp wApp(argc,argv); would invoke the same constructor and I could then be free to use the new functionality I added to this particular class as well as all the functions from QApplication. However the compiler error is really confusing me, any ideas?

Inherited classes herits constructors from super classes but it only construct the superclass part of the class (not the part of the subclass that still must be constructed) so you must write a new one. If the super class has défault constructor (without parameters) then it is assumed that this one will be used.

Construction of subclasses is done by following the hierarchy if you have

QObject
|______QApplication
|______WirelessApp

It construct QObject then QApllication then WirelessApp so you must invoke a super class constructor (this is done because maybe you have private members in QApplication that must be initialized).

So simply do a constructor in your subclass that invoke the superclass constructor this can be done like this

WirelessApp(argv,argc): QApplication(argv,argc) {
//Your constructor code here.
}

Hope this help and was understandable.

yes, helps a lot, thanks.