Porting QMacPasteboardMime derived class to Qt 6

[AndyBrice]

I am porting software from Qt 5 to Qt 6.

In Qt 5 on Mac I used the macextras class:

QMacPasteboardMime

This is not available in Qt 6.

According to:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-93632

There is a replacement class:

QMacInternalPasteboardMime

But I can't find an include for this class. Even searching the source of Qt 6.5.1 I can't find it.

Can I derive from QMacInternalPasteboardMime in Qt 6.5.1? How?

[SGaist]

Hi,

The class is now named QMacMime. You can find it in the platform subfolder in the gui part of the qtbase sources.

[AndyBrice]

@SGaist I couldn't find QMacMime either. It's not in:

$QTDIR/6.5.1/Src/qtbase/src/gui/platform/macos

[SGaist]

My bad ! I missed some stuff.

From what it seems, the clipboard part has been revamped a bit more. I think you will need to check the QMacMimeRegistry in the Darwin subfolder.

[AndyBrice]

@SGaist So is QMacMimeRegistry a replacement for QMacPasteboardMime? It doesn't even seem to get a mention in the help docs and a Google comes up with very little.

[SGaist]

That's what I gathered from the patch set. I agree that some more documentation would be useful.

[AndyBrice]

@SGaist I guess I'll just have to remove this functionality until there is some documentation. :0(

[SGaist]

You should also consider opening a ticket for improving the documentation, that would likely help speed things up in that area.