[Interest] Are slots even needed these days?

[Thiago Macieira]

On quinta-feira, 17 de março de 2016 08:23:48 PDT Constantin Makshin wrote:
> Another thing I personally don't like in the new connection syntax is
> that it forces signals to be public, making it possible to do all type
> of wonders by faking/simulating events on behalf of other objects.
> 
> For example:
> QLineEdit* edit = new QLineEdit("foo");
> // ...
> edit->textChanged("bar");

You could do it in a round-about way in Qt 4 by using 
QMetaObject::invokeMethod.

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