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Mastering Qt  5 - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788995399
Pages 534 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Guillaume Lazar Guillaume Lazar
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Robin Penea Robin Penea
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. Get Your Qt Feet Wet 2. Discovering qmake Secrets 3. Dividing Your Project and Ruling Your Code 4. Conquering the Desktop UI 5. Dominating the Mobile UI 6. Even Qt Deserves a Slice of Raspberry Pi 7. Third-Party Libraries without a Headache 8. Animations - Its Alive, Alive! 9. Keeping Your Sanity with Multithreading 10. Need IPC? Get Your Minions to Work 11. Having Fun with Multimedia and Serialization 12. You Shall (Not) Pass with QTest 13. All Packed and Ready to Deploy 14. Qt Hat Tips and Tricks 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Protecting your code with a smart pointer

The code we just described is fully functional. But it can be strengthened, specifically with the AlbumDao::albums() function. In this function, we iterate through the database rows and create a new Album to fill a list. We can zoom in on this specific code section:

QVector<Album*> list; 
while(query.next()) { 
    Album* album = new Album(); 
    album->setId(query.value("id").toInt()); 
    album->setName(query.value("name").toString()); 
    list.append(album); 
} 
return list; 

Let's say that the name column has been renamed to title. If you forget to update query.value("name"), you might run into trouble. The Qt framework does not rely on exceptions, but this cannot be said for every API available in the wild. An exception here would cause a memory leak: the Album* album function has...

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