Hi André Nice that you can confirm that there is a demand from others for a solution.
> Perhaps it might be easier or better to add a make_child template method to QObject that returns a new instance of the template type, parented to the object you call it on? That's actually the solution I was looking for. I love that idea. Thank you. What type is the returned pointer? I like to have one that has the semantical guarantee of being a child object. This is beneficial to distinguish classic owned pointer member variables from borrowed from the Qt Object tree. Do you have an idea? While the code is kind of trivial, the main benefit it the semantically effect that you are able to annotate a pointer as patented in a standardized syntax across code base. You don't have to learn custom solution and a upstream provided version will help to make this approach a recommendation standard style. > I don't quite see how you expect this to find a place in the current API The moc generated code may use it for instance. Getter that return an patented object pointer to another object are borrowed pointers and doing it via a raw pointer is just in the sense of the C++ Core Guidelines. We need to consider the case where this pointer will be stored, creating a shared ownership. For this case the QPointer is designed, but it does not have the "patented" semantic. Maybe we need another pointer for that? Cheers, Daniel
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