private slots

[Simon Hausmann]

On Thursday 04 January 2007 17:24, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:39, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:23, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > How is this better than the following?
> > >
> > > private slots:
> > >     void slotDateChanged();
> >
> > Because slotDateChanged() is a publically exported symbol. On
> > non-Msvc compilers you can still call it with #define private/public
> > hacks. On Windows you can't remove it at all without breaking binary
> > compatibility (even if no application calls it).
>
> Can you still connect to private slots from "outside"? If so you can
> call every private slot.

Yes, that is correct. That is why (I forgot to mention that) we should use a 
cryptic prefix for our private slots, to stress the fact to anybody trying to 
connect/call them from the outside that they shouldn't do it and that private 
slots may change/disappear any time.

In Qt we use the ugly _q_ prefix. I suggest to use _k_ in KDE ;-) (I've seen 
some people already doing that). So slotDateChanged() becomes 
_k_slotDateChanged().


Simon
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