Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Time for action – Receiving the button-click signal from the form

Open the mainwindow.h file and create a private slots section in the class declaration, then declare the startNewGame() private slot, as shown in the following code:

class MainWindow : public QMainWindow{    Q_OBJECTpublic:    explicit MainWindow(QWidget *parent = nullptr);    ~MainWindow();private slots:    void startNewGame();}

To quickly implement a freshly declared method, we can ask Qt Creator to create the skeleton code for us by positioning the text cursor at the method declaration, pressing Alt + Enter on the keyboard, and choosing Add definition in tictactoewidget.cpp from the popup.

It also works the other way round. You can write the method body first and then position the ...