Hello --

I have a class derived from QObject which has a QTimer member called m_MyTimer. I have a private slot in that object with signature void MyTimeout(). The following call in the class constructor causes a crash.

Qt Code: 
  1. connect(&m_MyTimer,SIGNAL(timeout()),this,SLOT(MyTimeout()));
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The failure is at the 4th line of the body of the following Qt library function (at the for loop).

Qt Code: 
  1. int QMetaObject::indexOfSlot(const char *slot) const
  2. {
  3.     int i = -1;
  4.     const QMetaObject *m = this;
  5.     while (m && i < 0) {
  6.         for (i = priv(m->d.data)->methodCount-1; i >= 0; --i)
  7.             if ((m->d.data[priv(m->d.data)->methodData + 5*i + 4] & MethodTypeMask) == MethodSlot
  8.                 && strcmp(slot, m->d.stringdata
  9.                        + m->d.data[priv(m->d.data)->methodData + 5*i]) == 0) {
  10.                 i += m->methodOffset();
  11.                 break;
  12.             }
  13.         m = m->d.superdata;
  14.     }
  15.     return i;
  16. }
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In particular, m->d.data is 0.

A workaround is to put the call to connect() in an initialization function that the client of the object is then obliged to call once, but that's annoying. Is there a way to get the connection at construction time?

thanks