diff -ur a/src/gui/widgets/qcombobox.cpp b/src/gui/widgets/qcombobox.cpp
--- a/src/gui/widgets/qcombobox.cpp	Wed Mar 30 15:19:06 2011
+++ b/src/gui/widgets/qcombobox.cpp	Fri Jul 15 09:39:33 2011
@@ -1261,8 +1261,9 @@
 void QComboBoxPrivate::_q_emitCurrentIndexChanged(const QModelIndex &index)
 {
     Q_Q(QComboBox);
+	QString text(itemText(index));
     emit q->currentIndexChanged(index.row());
-    emit q->currentIndexChanged(itemText(index));
+    emit q->currentIndexChanged(text);
 }
 
 QString QComboBoxPrivate::itemText(const QModelIndex &index) const