[Qgis-developer] Use of autoconnect slots?

[Nathan Woodrow]

Yes. Less magic the better

On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 2:30 pm Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nyall
>
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Just want to raise a discussion about this. What does everyone think
> > about these and whether we should be using them in code?
> >
> > I'm currently leaning toward opening a QEP for blocking them in new
> > code. Reasons are:
> >
> > - they are very fragile. Renaming a widget will break the connection
> > without any compilation error.
> > - they make searching for widget use harder. You can't use QtCreator's
> > handy "find usages" option (or the equivalent in other IDEs). You have
> > to resort to a plain text search.
> >
> > I'd much prefer to see explicit connections made using new style
> > connects so we gain the compile time error if anything breaks the
> > connection.
>
> Agreed! Explicit connections are much better...
>
> Cheers
> Martin
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