Qt uses preprocessor macros (fugly) for signals and slots. These conflict with boost's signals and slots class names. End result, is you can't compile when trying to use both in the same library/program. Qt Workaround. Using Qt With 3rd Party Signals and Slots - qt dev documentation. The problem in brief: Trolltech invented signals & slots, Boost implemented the concept using plain templates, and ironically you couldn't easily combine both libraries because of a relatively simple name clash. Trolltech used macro keywords and Boost loved our naming so much that they picked the. A Deeper Look at Signals and Slots ScottCollins2005.12.19 what are signals and slots? # showing how to mix Qt Signals and Slots with Boost.Signals # # Things you'll have in your.pro when you try this. # CONFIG += nokeywords # so Qt won't #define any non-all-caps `keywords'. Building Applications with Qt and boost. Published at 21:58 by Jens Weller. This is the start of a series of posts, in which I'll try to document my weekly work on a new application, build with Qt and boost. This first post is rather short, but I'd quickly try to give you an overview, why I use both Qt and boost in the same application. Qt's meta-object system provides the signals and slots mechanism for inter-object communication, run-time type information, and the dynamic property system. The meta-object system is based on three things: The QObject class provides a base class for objects that. The majority of GUI Toolkits nowadays use the Signals + Slots model. It was Qt and GTK+, if I am not wrong, who pioneered it. You know, the widgets or graphical objects (sometimes even ones that aren't displayed) send signals to the main-loop handler. The main-loop handler then calls the events, callbacks or slots assigned for that widget / graphical object.
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Qt Connect Signal Slot
The article describes an efficient way to implement delegates in C++ using Signal and Slot pattern.
Introduction
May 30, 2016 In this tutorial we will learn How to use signal and slots in qt.How Qt Signals and Slots Work. Understanding Signals and Slot in Qt. Qt Tutorials For Beginners – Qt Signal and slots May 30, 2016 admin C, Qt 2.
In my previous article “Generic Observer Pattern and Events in C++”, we discussed classical “Observer Pattern” and its implementation in C++ using templates. An event class
CppEvent
introduced in that article allowed us to bind together loosely coupled classes, by connecting one class containing CppEvent
to other class member functions. Member functions could be of any number and types of arguments, and no relations or special inheritance for model and view classes are required.The only problem here is that we can’t delete our view without detaching it from the model first without risk of crashing our application on the next call of the event notification. It’s becoming annoying when we have many models created and deleted dynamically. To resolve this problem, we need a delegate which removes itself from the model when the view is deleted. To accomplish this task, we use Signal and Slot concept. This concept had been introduced in Trolltech Qt library and Boost C++ library.
Using Signal and Slots
To demonstrate how signals and slots work, we create a model class containing
CppSignal
member and a view class containing CppSlot
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Note that we use
CppSignal1
to specify signal with one parameter; for two and three parameters there are CppSignal2
and CppSignal3
. We could avoid this name multiplicity for standard C++ compiler, it’s done for portability with VC++ 6, which is still in use.Note that slot member is initialized in the constructor of the view class. It’s initialized with pointer to the view class and member function. Now, to connect model to the view, we need to connect its signals with slots.
Now we can create another view and connect it to the same model.
In order to track return values from view's callback functions, we can use collector function object. For example, an object counting return values will be:
And when it is passed as a second parameter of
emit_sig
method, it will return sum of view responses.Now we can delete one of the views and the sum of responses will change accordingly.
Signals and Slots implementation
Implementation of
CppSignal
and CppSlot
is very similar to CppEvent
in “Generic Observer Pattern and Events in C++”.