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Qt5 alpha has been released. One of the features which I have been working on is a new syntax for signals and slot.This blog entry will present it.

Here is how you would connect a signal to a slot:

Qt5 Tutorial: QTcpSocket with Signals and Slots. In this tutorial, we will learn how to download a file using QTcpSocket.This is a continued tutorial from the previous one, Qt 5 QTcpSocket. Widgets emit signals when events occur. For example, a button will emit a clicked signal when it is clicked. A developer can choose to connect to a signal by creating a function (a slot) and calling the connect function to relate the signal to the slot. Qt's signals and slots mechanism does not require classes to have knowledge of each other.

What really happens behind the scenes is that the SIGNAL and SLOT macros will convert their argument to a string. Then QObject::connect() will compare those strings with the introspection data collected by the moc tool.

What's the problem with this syntax?

While working fine in general, we can identify some issues:

No compile time check: All the checks are done at run-time by parsing the strings. That means if you do a typo in the name of the signal or the slot, it will compile but the connection will not be made, and you will only notice a warning in the standard output.
Since it operates on the strings, the type names of the slot must match exactly the ones of the signal. And they also need to be the same in the header and in the connect statement. This means it won't work nicely if you want to use typedef or namespaces

In the upcoming Qt5, an alternative syntax exist. The former syntax will still work. But you can now also use this new way of connecting your signals to your slots:

Which one is the more beautiful is a matter of taste. One can quickly get used to the new syntax.

So apart from the aesthetic point of view, let us go over some of the things that it brings us:

Compile-time checking

You will get a compiler error if you misspelled the signal or slot name, or if the arguments of your slot do not match those from the signal.
This might save you some time while you are doing some re-factoring and change the name or arguments of signals or slots.

An effort has been made, using static_assert to get nice compile errors if the arguments do not match or of you miss a Q_OBJECT

Arguments automatic type conversion

Not only you can now use typedef or namespaces properly, but you can also connect signalsto slots that take arguments of different types if an implicit conversion is possible

In the following example, we connect a signal that has a QString as a parameter to a slot that takes a QVariant. It works because QVariant has an implicit constructor that takes a QString

Connecting to any function

As you might have seen in the previous example, the slot was just declared as publicand not as slot. Qt will indeed call directly the function pointer of the slot, andwill not need moc introspection anymore. (It still needs it for the signal)

But what we can also do is connecting to any function or functor:

This can become very powerful when you associate that with boost or tr1::bind.

C++11 lambda expressions

Everything documented here works with the plain old C++98. But if you use compiler that supportsC++11, I really recommend you to use some of the language's new features.Lambda expressions are supportedby at least MSVC 2010, GCC 4.5, clang 3.1. For the last two, you need to pass -std=c++0x asa flag.

You can then write code like:

This allows you to write asynchronous code very easily.

Update: Also have a look what other C++11 features Qt5 offers.

It is time to try it out. Check out the alpha and start playing. Don't hesistate to report bugs.

Introduction

Signals and slots are used for communication between objects. The signals and slots mechanism is a central feature of Qt. In GUI programming, when we change one widget, we often want another widget to be notified. More generally, we want objects of any kind to be able to communicate with one another. Signals are emitted by objects when they change their state in a way that may be interesting to other objects. Slots can be used for receiving signals, but they are also normal member functions.

Remarks

Official documentation on this topic can be found here.

A Small Example

Signals and slots are used for communication between objects. The signals and slots mechanism is a central feature of Qt and probably the part that differs most from the features provided by other frameworks.

The minimal example requires a class with one signal, one slot and one connection:

counter.h

The main sets a new value. We can check how the slot is called, printing the value.

Finally, our project file:

Connecting overloaded signals/slots

While being better in many regards, the new connection syntax in Qt5 has one big weakness: Connecting overloaded signals and slots. In order to let the compiler resolve the overloads we need to use static_casts to member function pointers, or (starting in Qt 5.7) qOverload and friends:

Multi window signal slot connection

A simple multiwindow example using signals and slots.

There is a MainWindow class that controls the Main Window view. A second window controlled by Website class.

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The two classes are connected so that when you click a button on the Website window something happens in the MainWindow (a text label is changed).

I made a simple example that is also on GitHub:

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mainwindow.h

mainwindow.cpp

website.h

website.cpp

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Project composition:

Consider the Uis to be composed:

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Main Window: a label called 'text' and a button called 'openButton'
Website Window: a button called 'changeButton'

So the keypoints are the connections between signals and slots and the management of windows pointers or references.

Qt5 Signals And Slots Syntax

The new Qt5 connection syntax

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The conventional connect syntax that uses SIGNAL and SLOT macros works entirely at runtime, which has two drawbacks: it has some runtime overhead (resulting also in binary size overhead), and there's no compile-time correctness checking. The new syntax addresses both issues. Before checking the syntax in an example, we'd better know what happens in particular.

Let's say we are building a house and we want to connect the cables. This is exactly w

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