Re: [Boost-users] Best practices for boost:signal

From: François Duranleau (duranlef_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-15 13:50:55

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, David Capello wrote:

> 2006/11/15, Memfis <memfis+news_at_[hidden]>:
>> What is the best practice for using boost::signal? Should the signal be
>> a public field? Should an accessor method be used? Should there be some
>> special connection methods for every signal, like the following:
>>
>> private:
>>      signal<void()> x;
>> public:
>>      void connectX(const signal<void()>::slot_type& slot);
>>      void disconnectX(const signal<void()>::slot_type& slot);
>>
>> If you use boost:signal, how do you do it?
>
> I used public signals in my project (http://vaca.sf.net), but I
> would like to known what people think about it.
>
> Personally, I don't like the idea to have two methods
> to connect and disconnect slots.

Another practice is to use proxies. This is what they do in gtkmm, albeit 
with libsigc++ instead of boost::signal, but it's quite similar.

-- 
François Duranleau
LIGUM, Université de Montréal