...C++ is C++ (and Qt idiom is Qt idiom) regardless of which editor you use to write it.
Alright. I never picked that up. Everything that I've been taught and everything that I have learned through school in computer science tells me that it's all implementation dependent. If everyone follows the standard, then I'm ok and I can use it, but if anything fails, then nearly any and every explanation is an option, and that leaves me overwhelmed. I am intentionally asking absurd questions to try to figure out what is happening, and I'm sorry if that is irritating, but I don't know any other way to ping other people for little-used information.

In this case, the problem is in hunting down the build commands to moc.exe (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/moc...d-line-options), and figuring out how to include them in the right order to get the rest of the compilation steps to jive.

Thanks for the feedback so far.

I'll post my findings when I solve them. It may have been easier to just learn Win32 threading.