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

What just happened?

The code we just created introduces a couple of new features. Let's go through them one by one.

First of all, we used a new element called Repeater. It does exactly what its name says—it repeats items declared within it using a given model. For each entry in the model, it creates an instance of a component assigned to a property called delegate (the property name means that it contains an entity to which the caller delegates some responsibility, such as describing a component to be used as a stencil by the caller). Item declared in Repeater describes the delegate even though we cannot see it explicitly assigned to a property. This is because delegate is a default property of the Repeater type, which means anything unassigned ...