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Mastering Qt  5

You're reading from   Mastering Qt 5 Create stunning cross-platform applications using C++ with Qt Widgets and QML with Qt Quick

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788995399
Length 534 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Get Your Qt Feet Wet FREE CHAPTER 2. Discovering qmake Secrets 3. Dividing Your Project and Ruling Your Code 4. Conquering the Desktop UI 5. Dominating the Mobile UI 6. Even Qt Deserves a Slice of Raspberry Pi 7. Third-Party Libraries without a Headache 8. Animations - Its Alive, Alive! 9. Keeping Your Sanity with Multithreading 10. Need IPC? Get Your Minions to Work 11. Having Fun with Multimedia and Serialization 12. You Shall (Not) Pass with QTest 13. All Packed and Ready to Deploy 14. Qt Hat Tips and Tricks 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Making your objects serializable with QVariant

Now that we have implemented the logic in our business classes, we have to think about what we are going to serialize and how we are going to do it. The user interacts with a Track class that contains all the data to be recorded and played back.

Starting from here, we can assume that the object to be serialized is Track, which in turn should somehow bring along its mSoundEvents containing a list of SoundEvent instances. To achieve this, we will rely heavily on the QVariant class.

You might have worked with QVariant before. It is a generic placeholder for any primitive type (char, int, double, and so on), but also for complex types (QString, QDate, QPoint, and many more).


The complete list of QVariant-supported types is available at http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmetatype.html#Type-enum.

A simple example of QVariant is as follows:

QVariant...
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