Refactor ensure signals are used as recommended by Qt #1506
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Description
The controller used to imperatively emit signals on the Export instances. This breaks the encapsulation provided by the Export class and defeats one of the main benefits of using signal: de-coupling components.
That, in turn, is one of the situations that made it more difficult for me to wrap my head around this code.
From Qt's documentation:
The controller now emits a signal indicating that a preflight check is desirable (for example) and the Export instance connects its own slots to that signal.
See https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/signalsandslots.html
Note: As soon as we think of signals as a representation of events, it becomes a lot easier to conventionally name them as past tense phrases (e.g.
some_event_happened
), like we've been trying to do for a little while.Test Plan
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