The Transition from Qt 4.x to Qt 5

The transition from Qt 4.x to Qt 5 is not expected to be significant. However, the “modularization” of the Qt code base requires some amount of changes to project configuration, such as use of “headers”, and configuration of project build settings (such as changes to the *.pro files).

Qt Creator (master) is compiled using Qt 4 and Qt 5; you can refer to its sources to get an overview of what is required to port an application and keep the sources backwards compatible to Qt 4.

QtWidgets as a Separate Module

example compile time errors 
error: QMainWindow: No such file or directory 
error: QToolButton: No such file or directory 
error: QWidget: No such file or directory 
Solution 
Add this in your *.pro file:

QT += widgets
greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets
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Change all instances of

#include <QtGui>
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to

#include <QtWidgets>
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The code should work now, though sometimes you may require to be more explicit:

#include <QtWidgets/QToolButton>
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QtWebKitWidgets is also a separate module:

example compile time errors 
error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘class QWebFrame’ 
error: forward declaration of ‘class QWebFrame’ 
Solution 
Add this in your *.pro file:

QT += webkitwidgets
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Note: when you have QT += webkitwidgets you don’t need QT += widgets

In addition, replace all instances of

#include <QtWebKit>
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to

#include <QtWebKitWidgets>
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You can try this by porting a WYSISWYG html editor [qt.gitorious.org] from Qt 4 to Qt 5.

QPrinter Doesn’t Work

If your code has the following lines:

#include <QPrinter>
#include <QPrintDialog>
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add the following to your project file:

QT += printsupport
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Again, sometimes it may not work and you would need to be explicit:

#include <QtPrintSupport/QPrinter>
#include <QtPrintSupport/QPrintDialog>
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toAscii() and fromAscii() Methods are deprecated

Replace all instances of

fromAscii()
toAscii()
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to

fromLatin1()
toLatin1()
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For example, given the Qt 4 code

QByteArray configfileti = TMP_Config.toAscii();
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you would change to

QByteArray configfileti = TMP_Config.toLatin1();
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QCoreApplication::UnicodeUTF8 is deprecated

This enum type used to define the 8-bit encoding of character string arguments to translate(). This enum is now obsolete and UTF-8 will be used in all cases. So remove all instances of QCoreApplication::UnicodeUTF8. For example:

Href_Gui->setWindowTitle(QApplication::translate("Href_Gui", "Url / www", 0,QApplication::UnicodeUTF8));
label->setText(QApplication::translate("Href_Gui", "Text:", 0, QApplication::UnicodeUTF8));
label_2->setText(QApplication::translate("Href_Gui", "Url:", 0,QApplication::UnicodeUTF8));
label_3->setText(QApplication::translate("Href_Gui", "Target / Name:", 0,QApplication::UnicodeUTF8));
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to

Href_Gui->setWindowTitle(QApplication::translate("Href_Gui", "Url / www", 0));
label->setText(QApplication::translate("Href_Gui", "Text:", 0));
label_2->setText(QApplication::translate("Href_Gui", "Url:", 0));
label_3->setText(QApplication::translate("Href_Gui", "Target / Name:", 0));
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QWorkspace is deprecated

This class is obsolete and was replaced by the QMdiArea class in Qt 4.3. In Qt 5 QWorkspace has been removed. The new class has a similar API to QWorkspace and porting it only involved changing the names of a few methods, signals, and slots.

replace

#include <QWorkspace>
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with

#include <QMdiArea>
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QDrag Problems

Apps that has drop and drag functionality will need some tweaking. A line such as

QDrag *drag = new QDrag(event->widget());
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in Qt 5 will generate the error

error: no matching function for call to ‘QDrag::QDrag(QWidget*)’ 
To fix this add among the includes:

#include <QWidget>
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qFindChildren is deprecated

An error will pop of this fashion: 
error: ‘qFindChildren’ was not declared in this scope 
To solve this you replace qFindChildren with findChildren, for example in

toString(const QObject* obj, int indentLevel) const {
[...]
/* Query over QObjects */
if (m_children) {
QList<QObject*> childlist = qFindChildren<QObject*>(obj, QString());
[...]
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replace

QList<QObject*> childlist = qFindChildren<QObject*>(obj, QString());
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with

QList<QObject*> childlist = obj->findChildren<QObject*>(QString());
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qVariantValue is deprecated

Your compiler will say 
error: ‘qVariantValue’ was not declared in this scope 
This function is equivalent to QVariant::value(value). Therefore if given a QVariant val rewrite the line

QTime t = qVariantValue<QTime>(val);
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to

QTime t = val.value<QTime>();
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This QTime enclosed in the angled brackets lets the compiler know what QVariant will return. However, if the variable is not a QVariable the type enclosed in the angled brackets should not be used(doing so will result in a vague compile time error). So given that m_color is of type QColor you will rewrite

s.setValue("color/favorite", qVariantValue<QColor>(m_color));
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to

s.setValue("color/favorite", m_color.value());
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qVariantCanConvert is deprecated

replace

Q_ASSERT(qVariantCanConvert<QString>(variant));
Q_ASSERT(qVariantCanConvert<QSize>(variant));
Q_ASSERT(qVariantCanConvert<QFont>(fontVariant));
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with

Q_ASSERT(variant.canConvert(QMetaType::QString));
Q_ASSERT(variant.canConvert(QMetaType::QSize));
Q_ASSERT(fontVariant.canConvert(QMetaType::QFont));
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Qt::escape is deprecated

error: ‘escape’ is not a member of ‘Qt’ 
So you would change the following block:

    if (result == QString())
result = Qt::escape(val.toString());
else
result = Qt::escape(result);
return result;
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to

    if (result == QString())
result = QString(val.toString()).toHtmlEscaped();
else
result = QString(result).toHtmlEscaped();
return result;
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this procedure can be automated by a porting tool from KDAB.

QDesktopServices::storageLocation deprecated

error: ‘storageLocation’ is not a member of ‘QDesktopServices’ 
error: ‘DataLocation’ is not a member of ‘QDesktopServices’ 
Use QStandardPaths::StandardLocation:

QString path = s.value("db.path",QDesktopServices::storageLocation(QDesktopServices::DataLocation)).toString();
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to

QString path = s.value("db.path",QStandardPaths::standardLocations(QStandardPaths::DataLocation)).toString();
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CONFIG+=qtestlib is deprecated

If you have the above line in your project file the compiler will warn you in the compile window, nonetheless the code will still run as usual:

Project WARNING: CONFIG+=qtestlib is deprecated. Use QT+=testlib instead.

QWeakPointer quirks

A code block like

quint64 decodedPointer = line.toULongLong();
MetaData* md = reinterpret_cast<MetaData*>(decodedPointer);
QWeakPointer<MetaData> wp(md);
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results in

error: no matching function for call to ‘QWeakPointer::QWeakPointer(MetaData*&)’ 
To fix this add to the project file:

DEFINES += QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0
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QtConcurrent Library is Missing?

C:\Qt\Qt5.0.2\5.0.2\mingw47_32\include\QtConcurrent\qtconcurrentthreadengine.h:133: error:undefined reference to `_imp___ZN12QtConcurrent16ThreadEngineBaseD2Ev’ 
In Qt 4, QtConcurrent was part of QtCore, so there was no need to include specific headers. This is no longer the case with Qt 5. If your source code have lines like

m_current = QtConcurrent::blockingMappedReduced(slices, functor, stitchReduce,QtConcurrent::UnorderedReduce );
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You will need to include the header:

#include <QtConcurrent/QtConcurrent>
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and add the following line to your project file:

LIBS += -lQt5Concurrent
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Fixing #include<> Headers

A Perl script “fixqt4headers.pl” exists in qtbase/bin/. that should be run on source code using Qt that corrects the #include<> directives for Qt components to also consider the module name.

Plugin loading

The Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN,Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2 macros have been deprecated in favor of the new Q_PLUGIN_METADATA macro. The advantage of the new system is that it allows Qt to query the metadata for the plugin without actually dlopen’ing it. This greatly improves performance and reliability of the plugin system.

The new Q_PLUGIN_METADATA macro is included next to the Q_OBJECT macro in the QObject derived class that is returned when loading the plugin. It contains the plugins IID and a filename pointing to a json file containing the metadata for the plugin. The json file is compiled into the plugin and does not need to be installed.

An example on how to change your plugins can be found by looking at the patch that changes the Gif image format plugin, see http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtbase/commit/963b4c1647299fd023ddbe7c4a25ac404e303c5d .

Deploying to systems without C++11

When Qt is built from source code on a system with C++11 installed, the Qt libraries/frameworks are linked against the system’s C++11 library (libc++). This means that the Qt libraries/frameworks are not deployable to systems without C++11 installed (such as out-of-the-box Mac OS X 10.6). To be able to deploy to systems that only support the older C++ standard (libstdc++), build Qt from source code with the -no-c++11 configure option.

QTimer is no longer accurate to the millisecond by default

QTimer has now 3 accuracy types, with a new default behaviour:

The new default type is Qt::CoarseTimer which, to reduce power/CPU consumption, allow 5% difference between requested time and actual one, and even allow the timer to fire before the requested time. 
The former one is Qt::PreciseTimer (to the millisecond, never before the requested time). 
A third one is Qt::VeryCoarseTimer and allow a 1 second difference

QUrl addQueryItem moved to QUrlQuery

If you have:

QUrl url;
// ...
url.addQueryItem(key, value);
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You will want to change it to

QUrl url;
QUrlQuery urlQuery;
// ...
urlQuery.addQueryItem(key, value); url.setUrlQuery(urlQuery);
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QAbstractItemModel changes

void reset()
void setRoleNames(const QHash<int, QByteArray> & roleNames)
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http://blog.csdn.net/x356982611/article/details/53257138

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