[Qt-interest] How to use ostream << operator with Qt?

Stephen Jackson spjackson42 at gmail.com
Sat May 15 00:01:24 CEST 2010


On 14 May 2010 22:00, K. Frank wrote:
>
> I sometimes write an ostream "<<" operator for my classes, primarily for
> development and debugging purposes.
>
> Is there a common (and easy and lightweight) idiom for using iostream-style
> stuff to output diagnostic messages in Qt?
>

Are you aware of qPrintable()? e.g.

QString message = "Hello, world!";

std::cout << qPrintable(message) << "\n";

Alternatively, there's QTextStream which might be worth looking at.

-- 
HTH,

Stephen Jackson



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