Extend format specifier?

[Thomas R. Krenn]

Hello everyboy!
Now we have to write:

qInfo("Current Working Directory: %s", QDir::currentPath().toUtf8().constData());

how about:

qInfo("Current Working Directory: %S", QDir::currentPath());

Note the capital S in the format specifier. This would make the code easier to read and would also save us a toUtf8 and fromUtf8.

[jsulm]

Why not just:

qInfo() << "Current Working Directory: " << QDir::currentPath();

for that to work you need to include:

#include <QDebug>

[mrjj]

hi and welcome
This is user forum so not many of the devs
hang out here so suggestion will often just vanish into the darkness.
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If you dream of it now , you could use a function
qInfo("Current Working Directory: %s", ex( QDir::currentPath() ));
Using refs, the price would be small.

[Thomas R. Krenn]

@jsulm Thanks for the hint, I tried that but the << op has some default formatting that I don't always want. The code is also a lot harder to read if there is a longer list of parameters and formatting options.

Anyway, I really appreciate that we can now redirect the output using:
QtMsgHandler qInstallMsgHandler ( QtMsgHandler handler )

best regards
thomas

[mrjj]

@Thomas-R.-Krenn
yeah I must confess the i still like "%d" style better
than << if more than a few values even its not type safe.
I found a type safe version of printf i tend to misuse :)
yes qInstallMsgHandler is really handy.