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Boost slot compatibility

Posted Dec 21, 2005 14:54 UTC (Wed) by cloose (subscriber, #5066)
In reply to: Boost slot compatibility by proski
Parent article: Trolltech Releases Qt 4.1

> I'm glad to see compatibility with Boost slots among the new features.

Yeah, that's a good thing! But I'm much more excited about tiny-SVG support, proxy models and pbuffer support.

(http://www.trolltech.com/developer/changes/changes-4.1.0....)

> I hope TrollTech will kill moc in favor of Boost slots one day

moc provides more than just signal/slots. It also adds extended rtti, introspection and properties.

(See http://doc.trolltech.com/4.1/metaobjects.html)

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Boost slot compatibility

Posted Dec 22, 2005 9:23 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

And the meta object model is so _incredibly_ useful. When I came to C++ from Python and Java
in 2003 to pick up on Krita, I was amazed that my classes weren't objects -- I couldn't do
introspection, I couldn't do meta programming, nothing dynamic seemed to work. QObject was a
godsent for me.

And without the meta object model extremely cool developments like the smoke library that
makes developing language bindings for Qt and Qt-based libraries a snip would be impossible.

Boost slot compatibility

Posted Jan 4, 2006 22:49 UTC (Wed) by Xman (guest, #10620) [Link]

Partly it's a mindset thing. Sure C++ doesn't give you much in the way of doing meta-object work dynamically, but it gives you very powerful capabilities for doing this stuff statically. In a lot of cases, you can make a static approach work (and often work better), but it's hard to look at it with the proper mindset to see how it could be done.