How to find out from the slot which signal has called this slot?

Question

I mean if I have many different signals which are connected to the same slot. I saw this question but can't understand the link in the answer. Can you give me simple example?

Answer 1

I think you can use this method: [protected] int QObject::​senderSignalIndex() const

From Qt documentation:

Returns the meta-method index of the signal that called the currently executing slot, which is a member of the class returned by sender(). If called outside of a slot activated by a signal, -1 is returned.

For signals with default parameters, this function will always return the index with all parameters, regardless of which was used with connect(). For example, the signal destroyed(QObject *obj = 0) will have two different indexes (with and without the parameter), but this function will always return the index with a parameter. This does not apply when overloading signals with different parameters.

Warning: This function violates the object-oriented principle of modularity. However, getting access to the signal index might be useful when many signals are connected to a single slot.

Warning: The return value of this function is not valid when the slot is called via a Qt::DirectConnection from a thread different from this object's thread. Do not use this function in this type of scenario.

This function was introduced in Qt 4.8.

Here is a small example that I created for you that demonstrates how it works:

#include <QTimer>
#include <QMetaObject>
#include <QMetaMethod>
#include <QCoreApplication>
#include <QDebug>
#include <QObject>

class Foo : public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT
    public slots:
        void mySlot() {
            QMetaMethod metaMethod = sender()->metaObject()->method(senderSignalIndex());
            qDebug() << metaMethod.name();
            qDebug() << metaMethod.methodSignature();
            qApp->quit();
        }
};

#include "main.moc"

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    QCoreApplication coreApplication(argc, argv);
    QTimer timer;
    Foo foo;
    QObject::connect(&timer, &QTimer::timeout, &foo, &Foo::mySlot);
    timer.setSingleShot(true);
    timer.start(1000);
    return coreApplication.exec();
}

main.pro

TEMPLATE = app
TARGET = main
QT = core
CONFIG += c++11
SOURCES += main.cpp

Build and Run

qmake && make && ./main

Output

"timeout"
"timeout()"