Qt Coding/Design Standards

[Brandybuck]

Trolltech does not recommend any particular programming style. What you choose is up to you.

As for "camel humping", there tends to be three sorts of variable naming conventions:

1) c_underlining: name_your_variables_like_this
2) camelNotation: variablesThatHaveAHumpInTheMiddle
3) mshNotation: Microsoft's Hungarian Notation

The Hungarian Notation seems to be the most popular in Microsoft shops, because Microsoft used to heavily encourage it. But it's been shown to be counter productive. The prefixes are extraneous and if you don't get them exactly correct, you waste time in code review meetings correcting them.

[jacek]

Trolltech does not recommend any particular programming style. What you choose is up to you.

That's right and there always be someone that's not happy with the current style.

it's been shown to be counter productive.

Also you don't need it in C++, because it has strict type checking in comparison to C for which than notation was invented.

[yop]

The link that jacek provided is a must read if you are using Qt. This will save you from inconsistent naming of the underlying framework with your code. Believe me it's a relief, the code becomes readable from the one instant to the other. I am also quite a huge fun of the convention used in http://www.javaranch.com/style.jsp although java centric and although I just can't lose the m_ prefix (yet?). But I 'm a huge Kathy Sierra fan so go figure
In any case if you are using a base toolkit that will appear everywhere in your code, stick with the toolkit naming conventions...

[VireX]

I do not know what "notation" or "style" this is, but the standard, or more OO way to code, is naming variables like so:

QTabWidget that is in a class:
m_TabWconversations;

Standard stuff in a class:
int m_iNum;
char m_cName;

standard stuff not in a class:
int iNum;
double dbDigits;
QPushButton qpbQuit;

[wysota]

The last part looks like the hungarian notation and it's definitely not object-oriented and also not a standard for c++. It was created for C Windows programming and is widely explained in Paetzold's book (sorry if I mispelled the name, I don't have the book).