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| author | Andy Shaw <andy.shaw@qt.io> | 2017-12-07 14:49:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Andy Shaw <andy.shaw@qt.io> | 2018-01-18 10:50:48 +0000 |
| commit | bed6292dde5c9a017a7cac7be6948471949174e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 79a8c09f6f8bc6cc166f5177cd56661d023898c2 /src/corelib/io | |
| parent | 0688a755e6f0aa89dbe09778fd3e1fa84399d630 (diff) | |
Win: Document limitation regarding registry types not being preserved
QSettings does not preserve the original key type in the registry, it
will set the type for the key based on the value that is being set.
Therefore we should make it clear that existing key types will be
overridden as this can cause some problems with types we do not
directly support (such as REG_EXPAND_SZ).
Task-number: QTBUG-2894
Change-Id: Ib2f2eed02759591e69fefb98a4a1f3cf897dd5cb
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@qt.io>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/corelib/io')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp index d5460238ec..9b930e7e14 100644 --- a/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp @@ -2358,6 +2358,11 @@ 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. |