accessing prtected member of QTableView

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I have a tableview in a form which i have subclassed. The form contains a qtableview and i am trying to access one the view's protected member functions
(QModelIndexList selectedIndexes () const) from a slot in the derived class using

void derived_class::derived_class_slot()
{
	QModelIndex index;
	index = view->selectedIndexes().first();
......	
}

void derived_class::derived_class_slot()
{
	QModelIndex index;
	index = view->selectedIndexes().first();
......	
}

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but i'm getting the following error:

error C2248: 'QTableView::selectedIndexes' : cannot access protected member declared in class 'QTableView'

how can i access this function?

thanks for your attention.