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hylke

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Monday, April 18th 2005, 5:26pm

Creating a signal

Hello
I would like to create a simple SIGNAL.
But I have no idea how signals work.
I know that slots are just functions of a class that are called whenever a signal is sent.
But how does that work with signals?
Is it like, whenever the signal function is called, the slot function is executed?
And could anoyne please provide me an easy example of how a really simple signal could look like?
Thanx Hylke
Duh

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Monday, April 18th 2005, 5:30pm

You declare signals in the signals: section of the class declaration, just like slots.
But you don't add any body.

At the point where you want to emit the signal you simply write

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emit signalname(); // no parameters
emit signalname(parametervalue); // with one parameter

The program execution then calls all connected slots and returns from the emit call after the last one.

However you can not assume any odering of slots, they might be executed in any order.

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Monday, April 18th 2005, 5:30pm

RE: Creating a signal

use QT Assistant, brother :)

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class.h
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#include <qobject.h>

class Class : public QObject
{
   Q_OBJECT

   public:
        Class();
        ~Class();

   signals:
         void dosomething();
};

class.cpp
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#include "class.h"

Class::Class() : QObject()
{}

Class::~Class()
{}

.........

example:

class = new Class;

connect(class, SIGNAL(dosomething()), this, SLOT(slotDoSomething()));


You can wake signal manually with "emit dosomething();"

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Krasu" (Apr 18th 2005, 5:31pm)

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Tuesday, April 19th 2005, 7:43pm

Ok, Thanx.
That was easyer than i expected it to be.
Hylke
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Wednesday, April 20th 2005, 12:19pm

Hey

use the desiger and first create a slot then create a connections

Now write the code in the .h file

The compile

You can find the actual moc and cpp file generated.

Here u can see the actual code written by the QT Desiger for signal and slot mechanims