[Interest] Q_ENUMS with foreign enum ?

[Rutledge Shawn]

On 12 Jul 2014, at 10:03 AM, Martin Koller wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> is there any possibility to use an enum in the Q_ENUMS macro when the enum is not
> defined in a QObject derived class ?
> (Specifically I'm trying to do that with QSslError::SslError)

The Qt namespace has a lot of enums like that.  The trick there is to get moc to pretend that the namespace is actually a class.

src/corelib/global/qnamespace.h

(But the fact that it is not a class is perhaps only historical… does anybody know more?)