On Saturday, 7 July 2018 08:37:40 PDT Robert Helling wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to understand some code that contains invocations of > > QMetaObject::invokeMethod > > I admit I not a C++ person in any sense so could somebody please explain why > one would use such a thing? Berthold, I guess you introduced these. In > particular since the Qt documentation says about QMetaObject
Usually, that function is used with Qt::QueuedConnection, which instead of calling the method indicated right now, it posts an event to the event queue with the arguments you supply. When the event loop gets to that event, the method you listed gets finally called. Another way of doing the same is by using QTimer::singleShot() with a lambda that carries your parameters. But this wasn't available before Qt 5.4, so there's a lot of code (and muscle memory) using invokeMethod(). -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
