I understand why I get a C2248: \'QObject::QObject\' : cannot access private member declared in class \'QObject\' . Qt objects are not copyable, as explained here:<
The easiest solution to detect the root cause is by making your copy ctor also private. (Or deleted, but that's not possible in VS2010 yet). This will suppress the automatically-generated copy ctor, which was the source of the error.