Inheritance problem

[Krzysztow]

Hello everyone,

I have a problem and almost found a solution, for example this: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/multiple-inheritance.html. However in my case I cannot solve it in a proposed way and will explain it shortly why...

So basically, I have a BaseView, that derives from QWidget like this:

class BaseView:
   public QWidget
{
   BaseView(const QString &name){_name=name};
   void setName(QString &name){_name=name};
   QString &name(){return _name};
private:
   QString _name;
}

I want it, by default, to be a QWidget (graphical widget), because I'm using all the ...View classes in some graphical container - they are cast on to BaseView and put into a graphical grid.
And I want other people to make their own classes, which by default are derived from QWidget (when not declaring anything else) or for example QPushButtons, what would be something like this:

class PushButtonView:
   public BaseView,
   public QPushButton
{
   PushButtonView(const QString &name){_name=name};
}

But here comes a problem, because QPushButton is also derived from QWidget (reference to some members is ambiguous). I end up with diamond structure like this:

QWidget
                          /          \
                         /            \
               BaseView       QPushButton
                        \             / 
                         \           /
                       ButtonView

I cannot do something that was suggested in a link mentioned before (virtual classes), 'cause QWidget is not my class and I can't alter it. Does anyone have some idea, how I can overcome this problem?

Thank You in advance,
Krzysztof.

[Banfa]

If this is QT then the QT documentation specifically says that you must only inherit from QObject once and QObject is a base class of QWidget.

You will have to break the diamond. That might mean having a abstract class that BaseView and ButtonView both inherit from that does no inherit QWidget and not having ButtonView inherit from BaseView.

[Krzysztow]

Thank You for Your suggestions. Not happy with the result, but have to smohow deal with it.

All the best!