[Development] Why don't we have notify signal for all of the properties?

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Fri Jul 6 15:29:13 CEST 2012


On sexta-feira, 6 de julho de 2012 15.06.34, Tr3wory wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Richard Moore <rich at kde.org> wrote:
> > On 6 July 2012 13:26, Tr3wory <tr3w at freemail.hu> wrote:
> >> But the QWidget's weight property doesn't have a corresponding
> >> weightChanged() signal (nor sizeChanged() or something higher level).
> >> Actually it doesn't have any NOTIFY signal at all.
> > 
> > QWidget doesn't have a weight() property. If it's something you've
> > added in one of your subclasses, then that subclass is responsible for
> > exposing the property and adding the notify signal.
> 
> Sorry, I mean width, or height...

QWidget was written before properties could have NOTIFY signals. That's why 
its properties don't notify of changes.

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