[Qt-interest] Are there any disadvantages with OT

[Daniel Price]

> > That's not a good thing. It leads to code-mess with the application
> tied to the UI. Very 1995. Change something in the UI and you have to
> change the handler. Qt's signal system is far superior as are actions
> for normalizing the code. And a lot of experiences Qt devs build their
> UIs in code because of the extra flexibility Qt provides.
>
> Doesn't Qt Creator do much the same thing? If you select a widget in
> the
> designer, right click it and select "Go to slot...", it will list the
> slots for that widget and will generate a method called
> "on_*membername*_*slotname*" that will automatically get connected.
>
> I don't know where the connection is made though, it might be the
> uic-generated code.

That's a feature of QtDesigner. It was added to appease MSVC users. I don't think many people use it because it leads to exactly the kind of brittleness I mentioned.

The connections are made with the uic code.



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