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Diffstat (limited to 'src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp')
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diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp index bbc66120b5..4b1b9888d8 100644 --- 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. |