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+// Copyright (C) 2021 The Qt Company Ltd.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-only
+
+/*!
+ \page widgets-changes-qt6.html
+ \title Changes to Qt Widgets
+ \ingroup changes-qt-5-to-6
+ \brief Changes in Kernel classes, Widgets, ItemViews, and Utility Classes.
+
+ Qt 6 is a result of the conscious effort to make the framework more
+ efficient and easy to use.
+
+ We try to maintain binary and source compatibility for all the public
+ APIs in each release. But some changes were inevitable in an effort to
+ make Qt a better framework.
+
+ In this topic we summarize those changes in Qt Widgets, and provide
+ guidance to handle them.
+
+ \section1 Kernel classes
+
+ \section2 The QWidget class
+
+ The virtual QWidget::enterEvent() handler now receives a QEnterEvent*
+ parameter which has information about the pointer position, rather than
+ a plain QEvent*.
+
+ \section2 QDesktopWidget and QApplication::desktop()
+
+ QDesktopWidget was already deprecated in Qt 5, and has been removed in
+ Qt 6, together with QApplication::desktop().
+
+ QScreen provides equivalent functionality to query for information about
+ available screens, screen that form a virtual desktop, and screen
+ geometries.
+
+ Use QWidget::setScreen() to create a QWidget on a specific display;
+ note that this does not move a widget to a screen in a virtual desktop
+ setup.
+
+ \section2 QAction, QActionGroup
+
+ These classes have been moved into the QtGui module. Member functions that
+ depend on types defined in QtWidgets (such as QAction::menu() and
+ QAction::setMenu()) are implemented as templates that will be instantiated
+ only when called.
+
+ \section1 Widgets
+
+ \section2 The QAbstractButton class
+
+ The default timeout parameter for QAbstractButton::animateClick() is
+ removed to allow modern connection syntax without the need for qOverload.
+
+ \section2 The QComboBox class
+
+ The QComboBox::setModel() function is now virtual.
+
+ \section2 The QDateTimeEdit class
+
+ When QDateTimeEdit::setDateTime() is called with a date-time whose
+ time-spec doesn't match that of the QDateTimeEdit instance, the
+ date-time is converted to the time-spec of the QDateTimeEdit. This
+ gives a date-time that describes the same instant in time, but
+ does so in the same terms as the QDateTimeEdit uses. Previously,
+ the date and time from the passed date-time were combined with the
+ time-spec of the widget, ignoring the time-spec of the date-time;
+ this could describe a different point in time than the one
+ described by the date-time passed.
+
+ \section1 ItemViews
+
+ \section2 The QAbstractItemView class
+
+ The virtual viewOptions() method that previously returned a QStyleOptionViewItem
+ object has been renamed to initViewItemOption, and initializes a
+ QStyleOptionViewItem object that's passed in through a pointer.
+
+ \section1 Styling Classes and related APIs
+
+ All versioned QStyleOption subclasses are consolidated, and the version
+ numbers are reset to 1.
+
+ The various initStyleOption() methods in widget classes are now virtual.
+
+ \section2 Style sheet changes
+
+ Styling a widget by its property in Qt 5 vs Qt 6 is different, especially if the
+ property is an enum. In Qt 5, the selector value for such a property is the integer
+ equivalent of the enum value, while in Qt 6 the string value is used. The following
+ example demonstrates this difference:
+
+ \code
+ // Qt 5 style sheet
+ QToolButton[popupMode="1"] {
+ padding-right: 20px;
+ }
+ \endcode
+
+ \code
+ // Qt 6 style sheet
+ QToolButton[popupMode=MenuButtonPopup] {
+ padding-right: 20px;
+ }
+ \endcode
+
+ \section1 Utility Classes
+
+ \section2 QUndoCommand, QUndoStack, and QUndoGroup
+
+ The widget independent classes of the Undo/Redo framework have been moved
+ into the QtGui module.
+*/