[Interest] Random question Friday: Why no area() for Rects and Sizes?, path.join()?

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 12/04/19 17:09, Jason H ha scritto:
> I often miss Node and Python that has a path appender. This could have been tedious in the past but in C++11, QDir::join({parts, of, a, path, and, filename})  (declared as static QDir::join(const QStringList& parts);)
> I'm aware that Qt makes file path delimiters OS-agnostic, but I find myself missing the construct as a logical concept.  

It's non trivial in the presence of parts which design absolute paths, 
and, Qt should stop adding filesystem convenience APIs before having a 
serious discussion on its evolution (e.g. dropping QString in favour of 
a filesystem path class).

For instance, see the complicated (confusing?) behaviour of operator/ 
for std::filesystem::path:

> https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem/path/append



> Also consider:
> 
> source ="file://"  + appPath+ "/" + filename

*DO NOT CREATE URLS BY CONCATENATING PIECES*!

Use QUrl properly (QUrl::fromLocalFile, in this case).


My 2 c,
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