[Development] Info request for DEFINES in QtCreator

[Robert Löhning]

Am 31.07.20 um 22:41 schrieb Francesc Martinez:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some troubles with implicit conversions every time I have to
> build my plugin (https://github.com/francescmm/GitQlientPlugin) but until
> now I didn't bother to see why. I've been just fixing the issues (mainly
> casts to QString).
> 
> Looking for the reasons I've noticed that there are some defines in the
> *qtcreator.pri*.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that there is a reason and I don't mind at all if I have to
> fix my issues. What I wonder is if you could explain to me or document
> somewhere why they are there so I can check if I need them as well in my
> app.
> 
> I guess that the following two are present to avoid encoding problems:
> 
> 
>    - QT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII
>    - QT_RESTRICTED_CAST_FROM_ASCII
> 
> 
> But I really don't know the reason for the following ones:
> 
> 
>    - QT_NO_JAVA_STYLE_ITERATORS
>    - QT_USE_FAST_OPERATOR_PLUS
>    - QT_USE_FAST_CONCATENATION
> 
> 
> In addition to those, I wonder why "QT_USE_QSTRINGBUILDER" is not
> added in that group.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> 
> Francesc.
> 

Hello Francesc,

while some of the developers of Qt Creator are also subscribed to this
list, you might get an answer sooner if you ask on Creator's mailing list:
qt-creator at qt-project.org

Cheers,
Robert