[Kde-perl] Converting Qt4 QString to ordinary Perl string

[Gary Greene]

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 05:22:20 am Richard Dale wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 June 2009 09:46:27 pm Chris Burel wrote:
> > As I recall from when I looked at that version of the binding from a
> > year ago, you have to go through a roundabout method to get the data
> > out of the QString object.
> >
> > my $i = 0;
> > my $perlStr = '';
> > while( $i < $string->count() ) {
> >     $perlStr .= chr( $string->at($i)->cell() );
> >     $i++
> > }
> > print $perlStr;
> > Hi there
> >
> > Very difficult.  This was one of the reasons the smoke-based PerlQt4
> > project was started.  The link has already been posted.
>
> One related point is that in PerlQt Qt3, a QByteArray was mapped onto a
> Perl string. But I found that was more trouble than it's worth in QtRuby,
> and so Qt::ByteArray is now a class, and not a string anymore.
>
> -- Richard
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As long as there is a way to convert TO a string for QByteArrays that 
shouldn't be too much of a problem. (Yes, I've run into code that needs 
that.)

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