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\page gui-changes-qt6.html
\title Changes to Qt GUI
\ingroup changes-qt-5-to-6
- \brief Migrate Qt GUI to Qt 6.
+ \brief Kernel, Text, Painting, and Utility classes are modified.
Qt 6 is a result of the conscious effort to make the framework more
efficient and easy to use.
@@ -114,4 +114,38 @@
Metal, in addition to OpenGL. On Windows the default choice is Direct 3D,
therefore the removal of ANGLE is alleviated by having support for graphics
APIs other than OpenGL as well.
+
+ \section2 Native clipboard integration
+
+ Qt 5 provided interfaces for integrating platform specific or custom
+ clipboard formats into Qt through \c QMacPasteboardMime in \c QtMacExtras,
+ and \c QWindowsMime from the Windows QPA API. Since Qt 6.6, the
+ equivalent functionality is provided by the classes QUtiMimeConverter for
+ \macos, and the QWindowsMimeConverter for Windows.
+
+ Porting from QWindowsMime to QWindowsMimeConverter requires practically no
+ changes, as the virtual interface is identical. However, in Qt 6 it is no
+ longer needed to register a QWindowsMimeConverter implementation;
+ instantiating the type implicitly registers the converter.
+
+ Porting a QMacPasteboardMime to QUtiMimeConverter requires renaming some of
+ the virtual functions. Note that the \c{QMacPasteboardMime} API used the
+ outdated term \c{flavor} for the native clipboard format on \macos, whereas
+ the platform now uses \c{Uniform Type Identifiers}, i.e. \c{UTI}s, which Qt
+ has adapted for function and parameter names.
+
+ The \c{mimeFor} and \c{flavorFor} functions are replaced by the
+ \l{QUtiMimeConverter::}{mimeForUti} and \l{QUtiMimeConverter::}{utiForMime}
+ implementations, respectively. Those should return the name of the mime
+ type or \c{UTI} that the converter can convert the input format to, so a
+ port usually just involves renaming existing overrides. The
+ \c{convertToMime}, \c{convertFromMime}, and \c{count} functions in
+ QUtiMimeConverter are identical to their QMacPasteboardMime versions.
+
+ The \c{canConvert}, \c{converterName} functions are no longer needed, they
+ are implied by implementation of the above functions, so overrides of those
+ functions can be removed.
+
+ As with the the QWindowsMimeConverter, registration is done by instantiating
+ the type.
*/