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/*!
    \page qml-changes-qt6.html
    \title Porting to Qt 6 - Qt QML
    \ingroup porting-guides-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

    \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.

*/