`signal.connect(somthing slot)` means that make a connection between signal & slot. `signal.emit(object)` means that to emit the connected signal. Because you have connected textActivated(signal) with lineEdit.setText(slot), so, if you set the currentText for object when it is emitted, the setText catch the object.If you connect the signal to. I have a number of different signals connected to one slot. Is there any disconnect function that can be used to disconnect everything connected to a specific slot? For example: @QObject::connect(object1, SIGNAL(a), receiver, SLOT(slot)); QObject::con. Create a list of window names that don't have (and don't require) the slot B connection, and simply do an if/else check on those names making it only attempt to windows that aren't contained in that list. The list of windows not needing the connection.should. be smaller than the list of windows needing it.

Quite a frequent problem when working with signals with slots in Qt5, according to my observations on the forum, is the connection of slots in the syntax on the pointers to signals having an overload of the signature. The same applies to slots that have an overload.

ConnectionQt5 Signal Slot Connection

Let's take a test class that has overloaded signals.

Here there is a signal, with an overload of the signature. Connect this signal will also be to the slots that are declared in the Widget class, and which also have an overload of the signature.

Slot

How it was in Qt4

Within Qt4, everything was solved quite simply by specifying the signature of the signal and the slot in the SIGNAL and SLOT macros.

How it became in Qt5

But in Qt5, when writing in the new syntax of signals and slots, there are some problems. Because you need to make the static_cast of the method signature.

Signal

By the way, the new syntax also allows you to connect signals to slots with a smaller signature, as it was in Qt4.

Advantages of the new syntax

And now a stumbling block. Why use the new syntax of signals and slots? I still hear this question from time to time. Especially when people see such terrible castes of signatures.

Qt5 Signal Slot Connection Settings

  1. Therefore, I will list potential advantages:The ability to track errors in the connection of signals and slots at the compilation stage, rather than in the runtime
  2. Reducing compilation time by excluding macros from the code
  3. The ability to connect lambda functions, it's quite an important bun
  4. We protect ourselves from errors when we try to connect from the outside to a private slot. Yes!! Yes!! The SIGNAL and SLOT macros ignore the access levels of methods, violating OOP.

Qt5 Signal Slot Connection Adapters

In general, for me this is enough, but for you?

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