[Interest] Q_ENUMS with foreign enum ?

[Nurmi J-P]

On 14 Jul 2014, at 11:11, Rutledge Shawn <Shawn.Rutledge at digia.com> wrote:

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> On 12 Jul 2014, at 10:03 AM, Martin Koller wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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)
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> 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.
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> src/corelib/global/qnamespace.h
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> (But the fact that it is not a class is perhaps only historical… does anybody know more?)


Hi,

Q_GADGET macro allows Q_ENUMS for non-QObject classes, but it would be cool to have a macro (such as Q_NAMESPACE?) that would make the meta object available for plain namespaces.

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J-P Nurmi