Configuration file

[GrahamLa]

Hi
I need to have some sort of configuration file that can be edited by a user.
The configuration file will contain groupings of items for example

    PrintButton:
        Visible: true,
        AsPng: true,
        ForcePdf: false,
        GrayScale: false

Has anyone got any ideas on how best to achieve this?

[Pablo J. Rogina]

@GrahamLa you may want to take a look at the QSettings class, which "provides persistent platform-independent application settings"

[ODБOï]

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[Kent-Dorfman]

You might also look at JSON. I've found it to be very flexible for storing configuration entries and groups of configuration profiles.

[Daniel Williams]

I've used the QSetttings class, too. It's very well done. You can instantiate an object QSettings qs("organization", "application") which basically groups the settings in a config file. On linux the file is stored at ~/.config/organization/appliction.conf. Then there are calls to read/write to the file. Try it, you'll like it ;)