[Development] Changed enum property behaviour in Qt v6.8

[Volker Hilsheimer]

> On 3 Oct 2024, at 17:07, Phil Thompson via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
> 
> On 03/10/2024 15:44, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> On Thursday 3 October 2024 05:06:08 GMT-7 Phil Thompson via Development wrote:
>>> Yes, that's the change - commenting out the new test fixes the problem.
>>> I am dynamically building the meta-object. You don't really build an
>>> enum, you just provide a description of it to the meta-object. It would
>>> be nice to be able to register an enum with the meta-type system
>>> dynamically.
>> Or you can set the EnumOrFlag flag in the QMetaProperty flags field to
>> force the
>> constructor to search.
> 
> Sorry, can you be more specific? I can't see how to do it given the private nature of the flags.
> 
> Phil


Hey Phil,

How do you generate a dynamic meta object without using private APIs? Do you use QMetaObjectBuilder (which is private), or do you generate the tables and arrays by hand?

If you use QMetaObjectBuilder, then QMetaPropertyBuilder::setEnumOrFlag would be the way to go.

Volker