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authorLiang Qi <liang.qi@qt.io>2018-02-14 11:27:58 +0100
committerLiang Qi <liang.qi@qt.io>2018-02-14 12:51:24 +0100
commit305dd1b61f657474d751cc3b24f58249ec21b61b (patch)
tree5a90972ecf0f3e499625482d194903b474d9ece6 /src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp
parent76010f4af8c9a59a20c489d70c7f99b802f9721f (diff)
parentdfffb5299bf83b87607f28f55afaf3c404910f9f (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/5.9' into 5.11
Conflicts: .qmake.conf src/corelib/animation/qvariantanimation.cpp src/corelib/global/qglobal.cpp src/corelib/global/qlogging.cpp src/corelib/io/qprocess_win.cpp src/corelib/json/qjsonarray.cpp src/corelib/tools/qsimd_p.h src/corelib/tools/qtimezoneprivate_p.h src/corelib/xml/qxmlstream_p.h src/gui/kernel/qsimpledrag.cpp src/gui/kernel/qsimpledrag_p.h src/plugins/generic/generic.pro src/plugins/platforms/cocoa/qcocoamenu.mm src/widgets/styles/qmacstyle_mac.mm tests/auto/concurrent/qtconcurrentmap/BLACKLIST tests/auto/corelib/io/qfileinfo/tst_qfileinfo.cpp tests/auto/corelib/tools/qdatetime/tst_qdatetime.cpp tests/auto/gui/kernel/qwindow/BLACKLIST tests/auto/widgets/dialogs/qmessagebox/BLACKLIST Change-Id: I508d686cf20f7f8cc6a7119b9bc7c3bbb505c58e
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diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp
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--- a/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp
@@ -2366,6 +2366,11 @@ void QConfFileSettingsPrivate::ensureSectionParsed(QConfFile *confFile,
limitations is to store the settings using the IniFormat
instead of the NativeFormat.
+ \li On Windows, when the Windows system registry is used, QSettings
+ does not preserve the original type of the value. Therefore,
+ the type of the value might change when a new value is set. For
+ example, a value with type \c REG_EXPAND_SZ will change to \c REG_SZ.
+
\li On \macos and iOS, allKeys() will return some extra keys for global
settings that apply to all applications. These keys can be
read using value() but cannot be changed, only shadowed.