[Development] QConfig update.

[Milian Wolff]

On Wednesday 15 October 2014 10:02:59 André Somers wrote:

<snip>

> I think settings resemble properties to a very large extend. Perhaps it
> would, as an alternative to the XML or JSON schemes already suggested,
> but possible to build on the Qt property system instead for this. It is
> familiar to developers, does not require a special editor, and allows
> for using your own code instead of generated boilerplate quite naturally
> (point 4 above). Perhaps something like:
> 
> class AppSettings: public QTypedConfig
> {
>     Q_SETTINGS(); // Q_OBJECT, but perhaps with some extra's like the
> ability to include generated function declarations for getters and setters
> 
>     Q_SETTING(int width SETTING "dialog/window-width"  DEFAULT 800);
> //use generated getter, setter and notify
>     Q_SETTING(MyCustomType myValue READ myValue  WRITE setMyValue NOTIFY
> myValueChanged); //use custom getter and setter
> 
> public:
>      AppSettings(QObject* parent = 0);
> 
>      MyCustomType myValue() const;
>      void setMyValue(const MyCustomType& value);
>      Q_SIGNAL void myValueChanged(const MyCustomValue& value);
> }

I like the idea!

Bye
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