[Development] Qt 5.4.0 header diff: QtWidgets.diff
Giuseppe D'Angelo
giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com
Wed Nov 19 09:46:34 CET 2014
Il 19/11/2014 09:35, Thiago Macieira ha scritto:
> On Wednesday 19 November 2014 09:22:46 Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
>> Was adding a new override in the middle of an hierarchy safe? Or
>> subclasses in user code will now require a recompilation? (Not a big
>> deal, I don't expect that many QRubberBand subclasses with a timerEvent
>> override...)
>
> Overriding a virtual from the primary base is safe, provided that it's ok for
> derived classes to bypass the new override and instead call the base class's
> implementation. This is independent of whether the user overrode timerEvent
> again or not.
>
> This applies to the class, not to the user of the class. If the derived class
> is not recompiled, the it's like the new override is not there, regardless of
> who's using the derived class. If it is recompiled, then the new virtual is
> used, regardless of who created the object.
>
> PS: all new virtual overrides should be Q_DECL_OVERRIDE.
>
And now this feels wrong, right? The typical implementation of
timerEvent is something like:
> if (e->timerId() == myTimerId) doSomething();
> else BaseClass::timerEvent(e);
But this bypasses QRubberBand's own timer logic unless the subclass gets
recompiled?
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