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

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, David Capello wrote:

2006/11/15, Memfis :

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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 x; public: void connectX(const signal::slot_type& slot); void disconnectX(const signal::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