[Qt-interest] why QTemporaryFile::open is not allowing specify flags?

[Constantin Makshin]

Firstly, temporary files aren't meant to be used/edited by the user.

Secondly, doesn't setTextModeEnabled() solve the problem?

On Thursday 07 October 2010 06:41:38 Malyushytsky, Alex wrote:
> Is there any specific reason to prevent user specify flags in QTemporaryFile::open() (make derived function protected) ?
> Correct me if I am wrong, but I see no way to specify QIODevice::Text flag now, which means my files are not human readable on Windows due to the absence of Windows style line break.
> 
> Isn't it strange I need to override just in order to access inherited functionality?
> 
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> Alex Malyushytsky
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