Qt5: connect: How to use ‘connect’ in case the slot has less parameters than the signal

Written by  on September 18, 2018 

Task is to connect from one signal with one parameter to a slot with zero parameters. With the “old” Qt4-way of connect it works like this

But what if I want to use the type-safe Qt5-connects?

The documentation just mentions the cases with:
* connect to default parameters in slot
* and (for example) using the above-mentioned way of the string-based connect.

My idea was to use a lambda to fix this:

But it turned out in in this thread that

is possible! 🙂

Category : C++Qt