[Interest] Can slot be virtual?

[André Somers]

Igor Mironchik schreef op 29-12-2014 om 06:51:
> Slots in Qt can be virtual. But may be there some underwater stones?
>
> What do you know/think?
>
No, this works just fine and can be very useful.
You should, however, not mark the function as a slot more than once. 
Mark it as a slot in your base class, then simply override in your 
subclasses without adding the slot marker for moc.

One consideration may be API design though. I generally try to keep my 
API for _using_ a class separate from the one for _extending_ it. SLOTS 
are often (though not always) in the public API surface. Are you sure 
that that is also the surface you want to extend? You may consider to 
instead have a non-virtual public slot start(), than in turn calls a 
virtual private or protected method run(). The start method is then part 
of your _use_ API surface, while the _run_ method is part of the 
_extention_ API.

André