API Design for C++ by Martin Ry

API Design for C++ Martin Ry ebook
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 0123850037, 9780123850034
Page: 446
Format: pdf

The Nokia Qt library provides a cross-platform application and UI framework for C++. Notification (AutoReset) events are signalled. Martin Reddy draws from his experience on large scale, collaborative software projects to present patterns and practices that provide real value to individual developers as well as organizations. Worse, recent APIs implemented in modern programming languages make the same mistakes as their 20-year-old counterparts written in C. If you are designing a C API, have each function return a success/error code. For C++/Java/.NET, provide custom exception classes. There seems to be something elusive about API design that, despite years of progress, we have yet to master. Api Design Principles An updated version of the old Qt Quarterly article Designing Qt-Style C++ APIs from the first paragraph: "This document tries to summarize the know-how we've accumulated on designing Qt-style APIs. (To fill the streaming buffer with more audio). This is a rather accessible look at the . Asynchronous APIs are trickier to design than synchronous ones. You can't simply return the result of the operation, since it isn't ready yet. The new Win7 threadpool API requires you to use SetThreadpoolWait to schedule a new wait - Article in the C++ forum contributed by doug65536. Another example: Contrary to the default belief of some I've encountered (and then corrected), Gavin King has never programmed in C++.