Are signals in Qt automatically disconnected when one of the class is deleted

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daisy picture daisy · May 13, 2012 · Viewed 19.1k times · Source

Does Qt automatically remove connections between objects , when one of the side is deleted ?

e.g connect (A .. , B ..) , when A (a pointer) is deleted , or B is deleted , will the connection be disconnected ?

Is it necessary to use disconnect explicitly in destructor ?

Answer

Mat picture Mat · May 13, 2012

Yes, the QObject::~QObject destructor takes care of that:

All signals to and from the object are automatically disconnected, and any pending posted events for the object are removed from the event queue.
However, it is often safer to use deleteLater() rather than deleting a QObject subclass directly.

Do take care though:

Warning: Deleting a QObject while pending events are waiting to be delivered can cause a crash. You must not delete the QObject directly if it exists in a different thread than the one currently executing. Use deleteLater() instead, which will cause the event loop to delete the object after all pending events have been delivered to it.

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