[Development] Converting types in Qt

[Ziller Eike]

On Jul 16, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 16 July 2014 15:01:53 Ziller Eike wrote:
>> No idea what happens in animations, but I’d suppose that any conversions
>> there would be accidentally.
> 
> QPropertyAnimation is based on modifying QVariants, isn't it?

True, but I’d claim that that shouldn’t need automatic conversions between types.
If I create a QPropertyAnimation on a “qreal” property, and set “qreal” start and end values, then there should not happen any automatic conversions.
If I’d set end value “10.0” (i.e. QString), then I’d consider that very bad style. Maybe we have some int/real conversions happening there, which could at least argued to not do much harm.

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