How to find out whom invoked a slot?

[vulee]

I have a slot for QSpinBox. This slot could be invoked by either user clicked on the spin box or programmatically changed the spin box value. If I run in debug mode, I could look at the stack trace to detect who invoked the method. Is there is way to find the invoker programmatically?

Thanks

[squidge]

There's sender() if thats any use to you? It only reports the object that emitted the signal though...

I would expect however that the two events you state would be two different signals but both going to a single slot, therefore QSignalMapper would be more OO.

[vulee]

Thanks squidge.

sender() would work since it returns NULL when the slot was not activated by the signal.

The QSignalMapper is also interesting.

[wysota]

sender() should never be used in a method that may be invoked by means other than a signal-slot connection. You can't rely it will always be returning null in case of a direct call. If the call is made from a method invoked as a slot, sender() will probably contain the object that called the original slot.