Are any GUI libs going to make use of signals/slots?

[Craig Black]

"clayasaurus" <clayasaurus at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Craig Black wrote:
>> Is anybody using or planning to use the new signal/slot feature?  Seems 
>> like
>> a powerful feature to me.  I'm curious as to its percieved utility to GUI
>> library maintainers.
>>
>> -Craig
>
> I made a simple OpenGL based GUI for my little library that uses 
> signal/slots (note I just recently completed it but haven't used it for 
> any apps yet, except for test apps).
>
> It makes it really easy for users to hook up their own custom code to 
> handle things such as buttons being clicked.
>
> One thing I'm curious about is the efficiency of signals and slots. I'm 
> guessing it has slightly more overhead than a normal function call, 
> therefore it is not something to be calling constantly.
>
> ~ Clay

As far as performance, I'm sure it's not that bad.  It may be a little less 
efficient than a regular function call, but since it's primarily used for 
GUI-related stuff, this small overhead is trivial.

However, if you are concerned, you could do a benchmark.  Put a call to a 
signal inside a for loop that iterates a bunch of times, and time it.  Test 
it against a regular delegate invokation, and then a function call.  It 
would be interesting to see the results.

-Craig