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Game Programming Using Qt Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Game Programming Using Qt Beginner's Guide A complete guide to designing and building fun games with Qt and Qt Quick 2 using associated toolsets

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782168874
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lorenz Haas Lorenz Haas
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Witold Wysota Witold Wysota
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Preface 1. Introduction to Qt FREE CHAPTER 2. Installation 3. Qt GUI Programming 4. Qt Core Essentials 5. Graphics with Qt 6. Graphics View 7. Networking 8. Scripting 9. Qt Quick Basics 10. Qt Quick A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – functionality of a tic-tac-toe board

We need to implement a function that will be called upon by clicking on any of the nine buttons on the board. It has to change the text of the button that was clicked on—either X or O—based on which player made the move; then, it has to check whether the move resulted in winning the game by the player (or a draw if no more moves are possible), and if the game ended, it should emit an appropriate signal, informing the environment about the event.

When the user clicks on a button, the clicked() signal is emitted. Connecting this signal to a custom slot lets us implement the mentioned functionality, but since the signal doesn't carry any parameters, how do we tell which button caused the slot to be triggered? We could connect each button to a separate slot but that's an ugly solution. Fortunately, there are two ways of working around this problem. When a slot is invoked, a pointer to the object that caused...

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