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| -rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp | 5 |
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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. |