Question

I was wondering, once a clicked() is emitted by a button is there any way of finding out what button emitted it without overloading the click() function? (I have a bunch of buttons with almost the same function but different text, which is the defining element of each button).

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Within your slot, you can call the sender() function to get the QObject that sent you the clicked() signal. It returns a QObject *. Use qobject_cast to cast the QObject * to QPushButton *.

Documentation here.