Question about Qt's signals and slots portability?
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Hi,
If understood it correctly, signals and slots are implemented with macros.
Then if I write an app that uses signals and slots and an app that uses just the standard c++.
They both should be equally portable, right? (emit keyword??)Regards,
Mike. -
Your assumption is correct. Code that makes use of Qt's extentions to C++ is first transformed to ordinary C++ code using the MOC (meta object compiler) and then compiled to object code by any standard compliant C++ compiler.
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@Wieland thanks for clarification!
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HI and welcome to devnet,
just to add something to what @Wieland said; you can also use
CONFIG+=no_keywords
in your .pro file.In that case you have to use
Q_SIGNALS, Q_SLOTS, Q_EMIT
insteadsignals, slots, emit
; this is useful when you use a 3rdparty source code parser which doesn't understand these special Qt keywords.Qt suggests to use these macros when you release a public library.
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@mcosta thanks! :)