[Marble-devel] Review Request: Transform MarbleClock into a singleton

Bernhard Beschow bbeschow at cs.tu-berlin.de
Thu May 31 21:27:32 UTC 2012


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Singletons are like global state which usually causes lots of problems. For instance, I'd expect two different marble widgets inside one application to have independent clocks. Therefore, I think that turning MarbleClock into a singleton is a bad idea.

- Bernhard Beschow


On May 28, 2012, 9:12 p.m., marbledeveloper marbledeveloper wrote:
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> (Updated May 28, 2012, 9:12 p.m.)
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> Review request for Marble and Torsten Rahn.
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> Description
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> This patch transforms MarbleClock into a singleton. So it's possible to access to it from anywhere of the code.
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> Diffs
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>   src/lib/MarbleClock.h fed4448 
>   src/lib/MarbleClock.cpp 56b2fe4 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105088/diff/
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> Testing
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> Usage example:
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> #include "MarbleClock.h"
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> MarbleClock::instance()->setUpdateInterval(20);
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> Thanks,
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> marbledeveloper marbledeveloper
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