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<td align="right" valign="center"><img src="logo32.png" align="right" width="64" height="32" border="0"></td></tr></table><h1 align=center>QCustomEvent Class Reference</h1>

<p>The QCustomEvent class provides support for custom events.
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<p><tt>#include &lt;<a href="qevent-h.html">qevent.h</a>&gt;</tt>
<p>Inherits <a href="qevent.html">QEvent</a>.
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<h2>Public Members</h2>
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<li class=fn><a href="#QCustomEvent"><b>QCustomEvent</b></a> ( int&nbsp;type )</li>
<li class=fn><a href="#QCustomEvent-2"><b>QCustomEvent</b></a> ( Type&nbsp;type, void&nbsp;*&nbsp;data )</li>
<li class=fn>void * <a href="#data"><b>data</b></a> () const</li>
<li class=fn>void <a href="#setData"><b>setData</b></a> ( void&nbsp;*&nbsp;data )</li>
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The QCustomEvent class provides support for custom events.
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<p> QCustomEvent is a generic event class for user-defined events.
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<p> QCustomEvent objects should be created with a type ID that
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Qt-defined events types, the value should be at least as large as
the value of the "User" entry in the QEvent::Type enum.
<p> QCustomEvent contains a generic void* data member that may be used
for transferring event-specific data to the receiver. Note that
since events are normally delivered asynchronously, the data
pointer, if used, must remain valid until the event has been
received and processed.
<p> QCustomEvent can be used as-is for simple user-defined event
types, but normally you will want to make a subclass of it for
your event types. In a subclass, you can add data members that are
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<p> <p>See also <a href="qobject.html#customEvent">QWidget::customEvent</a>(), <a href="qapplication.html#notify">QApplication::notify</a>(), and <a href="events.html">Event Classes</a>.

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<h3 class=fn><a name="QCustomEvent"></a>QCustomEvent::QCustomEvent ( int&nbsp;type )
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Constructs a custom event object with event type <em>type</em>. The
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data pointer is set to 0.

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<p> Constructs a custom event object with the event type <em>type</em> and a
pointer to <em>data</em>. (Note that any int value may safely be cast to
QEvent::Type).

<h3 class=fn>void * <a name="data"></a>QCustomEvent::data () const
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<p> Returns a pointer to the generic event data.
<p> <p>See also <a href="#setData">setData</a>().

<h3 class=fn>void <a name="setData"></a>QCustomEvent::setData ( void&nbsp;*&nbsp;data )
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<p> Sets the generic data pointer to <em>data</em>.
<p> <p>See also <a href="#data">data</a>().

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