Use of colon after class name in c++

Question

This is a header file extracted from a blackberry 10 helloworld program.

#ifndef ApplicationUI_HPP_ #define ApplicationUI_HPP_  #include <QObject>  namespace bb {     namespace cascades     {         class Application;         class LocaleHandler;     } }  class QTranslator;  /*!  * @brief Application object  *  *  */  class ApplicationUI : public QObject {     Q_OBJECT public:     ApplicationUI(bb::cascades::Application *app);     virtual ~ApplicationUI() { } private slots:     void onSystemLanguageChanged(); private:     QTranslator* m_pTranslator;     bb::cascades::LocaleHandler* m_pLocaleHandler; };  #endif /* ApplicationUI_HPP_ */ 

I am confused about the colon operator right after the class name declaration.

class ApplicationUI : public QObject 

What does this mean?

Answer 1

It means that ApplicationUI inherits all methods and member variables from the class QObject. The use of public means that the public methods and members of QObject are also public in ApplicationUI.