[Qt-interest] need help with qobject connect

[Thiago Macieira]

Murphy, Sean M. wrote:
>> >> I mean SLOTs called consistently in a queue order.
>> >
>> >As I said already, the order of this queue is undefined, meaning it
>> >could potentially change depending on the phase of the moon.
>>
>> Actually, it is defined. It's always the order of the connects.
>
>Thiago, the Qt docs disagree with you, and agree with what Andreas
> meant.  From http://doc.qtsoftware.com/4.5/signalsandslots.html#signals
>
>"If several slots are connected to one signal, the slots will be
> executed one after the other, in an arbitrary order, when the signal is
> emitted."
>
>As Andreas said, ***RIGHT NOW*** they are executed in the order that
> they were connected, but you Trolls (are you still considered Trolls,
> btw?) don't guarantee that they will be in all versions of Qt.

Agreed, but we probably cannot change the order, as that would break far 
too many applications that depend on it.

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