enum's & KConfigBase

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Tue Jan 17 20:31:13 GMT 2006


On Tuesday 17 January 2006 11:32, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 16:17, Hans Meine wrote:
> > On Monday 16 January 2006 23:58, Thomas Braxton wrote:
> > > On Monday 16 January 2006 16:41, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > > On Monday 16 January 2006 19:39, Thomas Braxton wrote:
> > > > > What do you guys think of this macro?
> > > >
> > > > I'm not so sure if its a good idea to convert enums to integers and
> > > > back. enum's tend to be reordered within applications, which break
> > > > binary compatibility (not a problem usually for inner-apps usage) but
> > > > then also breaks configuration reading. This is a major problem. KDE
> > > > applications break already way too often their own configuration (I
> > > > cannot remember how often already I had to redo the very same
> > > > settings in e.g. konversation because the way the configuration key
> > > > was stored was changed *yet another* time). We shouldn't make it too
> > > > easy to keep that nasty habit.
> > >
> > > I could change it to something like Olivier Goffart suggested, but not
> > > sure about Q_ENUM usage yet, have to look at it.  Thinking about it,
> > > this would probably be best, since as you say enums get reordered.
> > > Converting enums to integers is the way most code does it now. I'll
> > > look at this tonight, and get back to you guys later.
> >
> > FWIW, I want to point out the enum<->string conversion macros which Neil
> > Williams posted to pilot-link-devel in April/May of 2005, including this
> > link to a related thread:
> >
> > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2005-March/012849.html
> >
> > These require a macro-ized marking up of enums, and would then allow to
> > store its values as string.
> >
> > I guess at least *someone* will find this helpful for something..
>
> But adding Doxygen becomes tricky at best with that solution.
>
> But agreed, who doesn't want enum/string conversion in a intuitive way.

KConfigXT does such conversion for you.

Cheers,
Waldo
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