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| author | Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io> | 2019-09-20 13:57:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io> | 2019-09-20 14:17:40 +0200 |
| commit | 488f24540d087ae98fff4b3a4de82bdf9acbc72c (patch) | |
| tree | a13472997ad97d290095d47c77219da0510ed339 | |
| parent | 4d41739403202c6717f9c2a1a9321d2ef76caeee (diff) | |
| download | qttools-488f24540d087ae98fff4b3a4de82bdf9acbc72c.tar.gz | |
Doc: Explain that property editor cannot handle custom class properties
That is, Q_PROPERTY types for custom types that have been declared
with Q_DECLARE_METATYPE().
Fixes: QTBUG-17816
Change-Id: I48c33af13d85b877596caca4fbd1103bf383d6e8
Reviewed-by: Friedemann Kleint <Friedemann.Kleint@qt.io>
| -rw-r--r-- | src/designer/src/lib/sdk/propertysheet.qdoc | 29 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/src/designer/src/lib/sdk/propertysheet.qdoc b/src/designer/src/lib/sdk/propertysheet.qdoc index 4e0ccddf2..e5ab420f4 100644 --- a/src/designer/src/lib/sdk/propertysheet.qdoc +++ b/src/designer/src/lib/sdk/propertysheet.qdoc @@ -68,17 +68,24 @@ also provides an interface for creating custom property sheet extensions. - \warning \QD uses the QDesignerPropertySheetExtension to feed its - property editor. Whenever a widget is selected in its workspace, - \QD will query for the widget's property sheet extension. If the - selected widget has an implemented property sheet extension, this - extension will override the default property sheet. - - \warning The data types used by the property sheet for some properties - are opaque custom QVariant types containing additional information - instead of plain Qt data types. - For example, this is the case for enumerations, flags, - icons, pixmaps and strings. + Keep the following limitations in mind: + + \list + \li \QD uses the QDesignerPropertySheetExtension to feed its + property editor. Whenever a widget is selected in its workspace, + \QD will query for the widget's property sheet extension. If the + selected widget has an implemented property sheet extension, this + extension will override the default property sheet. + + \li The data types used by the property sheet for some properties + are opaque custom QVariant types containing additional information + instead of plain Qt data types. For example, this is the case for + enumerations, flags, icons, pixmaps and strings. + + \li \QD's property editor has no implementation for handling + Q_PROPERTY types for custom types that have been declared + with Q_DECLARE_METATYPE(). + \endlist To create a property sheet extension, your extension class must inherit from both QObject and |