Error when trying to reimplement timerEvent in the QMessageBox successor class

[Frostorator]

I was trying to use qobject-embedded timer and get this errors:


...\tickingqmessagebox.cpp:5: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct QTimerEvent'
...\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\4.7.3\mingw\include\QtCore\qo bject.h:63: error: forward declaration of 'struct QTimerEvent'

Minimal code (error highlited by comment):

tickingqmessagebox.h

#ifndef TICKINGQMESSAGEBOX_H
#define TICKINGQMESSAGEBOX_H

#include <QMessageBox>

class TickingQMessageBox : public QMessageBox
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
explicit TickingQMessageBox(QWidget *parent = 0) : QMessageBox(parent) {};
protected:
void timerEvent(QTimerEvent *);
};

#endif // TICKINGQMESSAGEBOX_H


tickingqmessagebox.cpp

#include "tickingqmessagebox.h"

void TickingQMessageBox::timerEvent(QTimerEvent * event)
{
if (event->timerId==0) {} // <-- error appears here
}

main.cpp and .pro file are automatically generated. compiling only to desktop target.

If i try to move timerEvent implementaion from .cpp to .h file, I get this error (on the same line of code):

error: invalid use of member (did you forget the '&' ?)

P.S. I use the latest version of Qt SDK and tried to compile it with Qt Creator.

[tbscope]

Include QTimerEvent

[stampede]

In addition, you forgot the brackets in method call:


if ( event->timerId() ==0 )