Hi

There is an issue with QDirModel that has been puzzling me for quite some time. There is a public function in this class with the following signature:
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  1. QModelIndex index(const QString &path, int column = 0) const;
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I have another class that inherits QDirModel:

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  1. class MyDirModel : public QDirModel {
  2. }
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now when I do something like in this:

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  1. MyDirModel model;
  2. QModelIndex index = model.index(QString("/Users/anton"), 0);
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it would give compilation error:

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  1. no matching function for call to 'MyDirModel::index(QString, int)'
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To workaround this I usually do something like this:

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  1. MyDirModel *model;
  2. qobject_cast<QDirModel *>(model)->index(QString('..."), 0);
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What's the trick here?

I'm on Qt 4.6 under Mac. Not sure if it's reproducible on Windows

Thanks
Anton