My recollection is that it's a hold-over from pre-Qt. I see no reason it couldn't be replaced.
On Mar 30, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Bogdan Marinov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have any idea why is StelIniParser necessary? I'd like to > hear from its author(s). (Copyright line says Matthew Gates.) > > Today I had to modify it slightly to make it work with a certain > feature of QSettings (arrays/subkeys), which made me wonder why it was > created in the first place and why it's used instead of > QSettings::IniFormat. > > Is it an encoding issue? Perhaps it was necessary in the early Qt > days, but after Qt 4.5 QSettings supports setting codecs, including > various forms of Unicode: > http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qsettings.html#setIniCodec > http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qsettings.html#setIniCodec-2 > > (In turn, custom INI formats were introduced in Qt 4.1, so there's a > high chance my hypothesis is correct. :)) > > Regards, > Bogdan Marinov > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Own the Future-Intel(R) Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 > Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete > for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. > $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo > by 6/6/13. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/12124-176961-30367-2 > _______________________________________________ > Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel(R) Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/12124-176961-30367-2 _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
