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/*!
\page qml-changes-qt6.html
\title Changes to Qt QML
\ingroup changes-qt-5-to-6
\brief Migrate Qt QML to Qt 6.
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 QML, and provide
guidance to handle them.
\section1 QML language
\section2 URL resolution
In Qt 5, relative urls were often, albeit inconsistently, directly resolved, especially when
assigned to an url property. In Qt 6 this is no longer the case.
If you had a QML file stored under "/home/qml/example.qml", and "example.qml" contained
\begincode
property url imageFolder: "./images"
\oldcode
then the url property would store the URL "/home/qml/images". This made it impossible to use
relative URLs in QML in this way, so in Qt 6, the URL stays relative, and only gets resolved
when this is required (e.g. when it is used as the source of an Image component).
If you depend on the old behavior, you can use \c Qt.resolvedUrl
\oldcode
property url imageFolder: "./images"
\newcode
property url imageFolder: Qt.resolvedUrl("./images")
\endcode
Qt.resolvedUrl can be used in both Qt 5 and 6.
\section2 Variant Properties
\c variant properties, which have been marked as obsolete since Qt 5, are now treated in exactly
the same way as \c var properties.
Code that relied on implicit string conversion triggered on assignment to variant properties
should be updated to explicitly create an object of the correct type.
\oldcode
property variant myColor: "red"
\newcode
property variant myColor: Qt.color("red")
\endcode
Implicit conversions were done for strings that could be parsed as
\list
\li color (use Qt.color instead instead),
\li date (use the Date object instead),
\li rect (use Qt.rect instead) and
\li size (use Qt.size instead)
\endlist
\c variant still remains a deprecated keyword in Qt 6, though new code is strongly encouraged to
use \c var properties instead.
\note If the type of the property is known not to change, use a property of the concrete type,
instead of a \c var property.
\note These conversions were also applied to \c QVariant properties of classes registered with
the engine. As with \c variant properties, code that relied on implicit string conversions need
to use the corresponding functions of the Qt object.
\section1 Source Incompatible API Changes
\section2 Changed API
\c QQmlListProperty's \c CountFunction and \c AtFunction have been changed to use \c qsizetype
instead of \c int to align with the corresponding changes in Qt's containers.
\oldcode
int myCountFunction(QQmlListProperty<MyType> *);
MyType *myAtFunction(QQmlListProperty<MyType> *, int);
QQmlListProperty<MyType> myReadOnlyList(containingObject, container, &myCountFunction,
&myAtFunction);
\newcode
qsizetype myCountFunction(QQmlListProperty<MyType> *);
MyType *myAtFunction(QQmlListProperty<MyType> *, qsizetype);
QQmlListProperty<MyType> myReadOnlyList(containingObject, container, &myCountFunction,
&myAtFunction);
\endcode
Code which needs to supports both Qt 5 and Qt 6 can either use a typedef which is \c int in Qt 5
and \c qsizetype in Qt 6, or use \c QList::size_type, which already is such a type alias.
\section2 Removed API
Various deprecated functions have been removed.
\list
\li The QQmlListProperty constructor taking a reference has been removed.
\oldcode
QQmlListProperty<QObject>(owner, owner->objectList);
\newcode
QQmlListProperty<QObject>(owner, &owner->objectList);
\endcode
\li The functions \c qmlDebug, \c qmlInfo, \c qmlWarning, \c qmlContext and \c qmlEngine used
to exist both in the global namespace (or Qt namespace in namespaced builds), and in the \c
QtQml namespace. These functions now exist only in the global namespace.
\oldcode
QQmlEngine *engine = QtQml::qmlEngine(qmlObject);
\newcode
QQmlEngine *engine = qmlEngine(qmlObject);
\endcode
\li The \c qmlRegisterType overload taking no arguments has been removed. Use
\c qmlRegisterAnonymousType instead, or switch to declarative type registration with
\c QML_ANONYMOUS.
\oldcode
class AnonymousType : public QObject {
// ...
};
qmlRegisterType<AnonymousType>();
\newcode
class AnonymousType : public QObject {
// ...
};
qmlRegisterAnonymousType<AnonymousType>("MyModule", 1);
\endcode
Or alternatively
\code
class AnonymousType : public QObject {
QML_ANONYMOUS
// ...
};
\endcode
\li The overloads of \c qmlRegisterExtendedType and \c qmlRegisterInterface
which take no version argument have been removed. Use the overloads providing a
version, or switch to declarative type registration with QML_EXTENDED
and QML_INTERFACE.
\oldcode
struct GreetInterface
{
virtual ~GreetInterface();
virtual void greet();
};
Q_DECLARE_INTERFACE(GreetInterface, "org.hi.GreetInterface")
qmlRegisterInterface<GreetInterface>("Greeter");
\newcode
struct GreetInterface
{
virtual ~GreetInterface();
virtual void greet();
};
Q_DECLARE_INTERFACE(GreetInterface, "org.hi.GreetInterface")
qmlRegisterInterface<GreetInterface>("Greeter", 1);
\endcode
Alternatively
\code
struct GreetInterface
{
QML_INTERFACE(Greeter)
virtual ~GreetInterface();
virtual void greet();
};
Q_DECLARE_INTERFACE(GreetInterface, "org.hi.GreetInterface")
\endcode
\note In new code, declarative type registration should be preferred.
\li The function \c QJSValue::engine has been removed. If access to the engine is required, a
reference to it must be stored instead.
\li \c qmlAttachedPropertiesObjectById and \c qmlAttachedPropertiesObject(int *, const QObject *,
const QMetaObject *, bool) have been removed. Use the
\c qmlAttachedPropertiesObject(QObject *, QQmlAttachedPropertiesFunc, bool) overload of
\c qmlAttachedPropertiesObject instead.
\li \c QJSEngine::installTranslatorFunctions has been removed. \c QJSEngine::installExtensions
is available as a replacement.
\oldcode
QJSEngine engine;
engine.installTranslatorFunctions();
\newcode
QJSEngine engine;
engine.installExtensions(QJSEngine::TranslationExtension
\endcode;
\endlist
*/
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