[Interest] Where in Qt 5 is QApplication::Type now?

Joseph Crowell joseph.w.crowell at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 17:59:10 CET 2012


On 4/12/2012 2:20 AM, Stephen Chu wrote:
> On 12/3/12 10:25 AM, Nurmi J-P wrote:
>>> -----Original Message----- From:
>>> interest-bounces+jpnurmi=digia.com at qt-project.org
>>> [mailto:interest- bounces+jpnurmi=digia.com at qt-project.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Stephen Chu Sent: 3. joulukuuta 2012 16:04 To:
>>> Interest at qt-project.org Subject: [Interest] Where in Qt 5 is
>>> QApplication::Type now?
>>>
>>> I just switch over the the new stable Qt 5 branch and my code fails
>>> to compile.
>>>
>>> One of the error is in QtSingleApplication that refers to
>>> QApplication::Type and it's nowhere to be found.
>>>
>>> The only mention in Qt 5 doc is this:
>>> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qcoreapplication.html
>>>
>>> But it's gone in the snapshot doc.
>>>
>>> Is it removed from Qt 5? It was there a few days ago and I don't
>>> see any mention of removing it in the doc or any of the headers.
>> It has been removed from Qt 5 in this commit:
>> https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtbase/commit/553e216d891177ee0c2cea70bbd7f21103fc7795.
>> Quoting the changelog entry: "QCoreApplication::Type and
>> QApplication::type() have been removed. These Qt3 legacy application
>> types did not match the application types available in Qt5. Use for
>> example qobject_cast instead to dynamically find out the exact
>> application type."
> Thanks. That makes sense. I'll just remove the lines from my copy of
> QtSingleApplication for now. I am not using that part of code anyway.

Last time I tested, I wasn't able to make QtSingleApplication work at 
all under Windows VS 2010 just as a heads up.
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