[Qt-interest] QFile private member

[andrew.m.goth at l-3com.com]

Pete Christensen wrote:
> OK, I give up, I can not do this. How do I declare a private member 
> variable of type QFile and initialize it in the constructor?

Are you sure you want QFile and not QFile*?

> Compiler complains:
> /usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qfile.h:191: error: 
> 'QFile::QFile(const QFile&)' 
> is private

The gripe is against the header file, not the implementation of the
constructor.  Specifically the complaint is that the QFile copy
constructor is private.  Why would that be a problem?  It looks to me
that it's trying to make a default copy constructor for your class, but
it can't since it would rely on copy constructors for all data members
of your class.  You could explicitly define a copy constructor for your
class, or you could just switch to QFile*, which can be copied without
incident.

-- 
Andy Goth
<amgoth at link.com>