[Qt-creator] Automatic handler creation + crossplatform project...

[Serge Ratke]

Am Montag, 23. Februar 2009 16:07:02 schrieb Adam Higerd:
> Alex Williams wrote:
> > Thank you for explanations. This IDE is NOT suitable for my company.
> > First question: "Where is the button handler? Manual editing? You're
> > joking?!" - says my friends...
> > P.S.
> > It's normal to have "do not edit this manually" sections in code. You
> > prefer manual editing, but others - NOT... Please, do not destroy
> > future of this nice IDE...
>
> Your friends are accustomed to Microsoft Visual Studio. Designer (and by
> extension Creator) is not a visual IDE. It's not intended for
> point-and-click design. It's a Qt IDE and it's designed to promote Qt
> design patterns, and Qt design patterns are FAR more powerful than
> simply writing a button handler. You can connect multiple functions to
> any signal, including signals that are already defined on otherwise
> unrelated objects.
>
> MSVS's double-click-to-edit-code solution is a sign of a lack of
> sophistication. It's saying, in short, that the only way to make a
> button do something is to explicitly write code for it. Qt doesn't have
> that shortcoming. You can make buttons do stuff without having to write
> a single line of code if the functionality you want is already
> implemented -- not even a glue function that just wraps around another
> function. At most, you just need a connect call, and Designer CAN do that.
>
> /s/ Adam

jeez, should have read your mail before posting :)

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