[Interest] Where are the USER properties of Qt-provided QObjects documented?

Stephen Kelly stephen.kelly at kdab.com
Thu Jul 26 17:39:59 CEST 2012


On Thursday, June 28, 2012 11:09:16 K. Frank wrote:
> If we take the attitude that the lack of documentation of which
> property is the USER property means that this is not part of the
> official public interface of the class and is a mere implementation
> detail that can be changed willy-nilly in the future, then a new
> version of Qt would be allowed to break my (beautiful) code.

This was changed in Qt 4.8

https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,31035

> 
> The USER property feels like part of a QObject's public interface
> and therefore ought to be documented (and stable).

I agree. Like all changes, the impact on users of Qt needs to be evaluated.

Thanks,

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