QVariant - Video

Introduction to Qt/QML

22 December 2020

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The QVariant class is a cornerstone in Qt. It's used in the property system in model/view to exchange data between C++ and QML. But what is a QVariant, exactly?

It's a type-erased container, akin to std::any from the C++ Standard Library; a QVariant is able to store an object of any type (well, almost any type) and it also remembers which type it's stored inside. Let's see how QVariant works in practice in this video.

The example code showcased in this video is available here: https://github.com/KDAB/kdabtv

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Jesper K. Pedersen

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Jesper K. Pedersen – COO/HR director at KDAB. Jesper has actively developed with Qt since 1998 and, despite his fancy title, still does so.

He has held almost 100 training classes in Qt since 2000. Today, his greatest claim to fame is the QML youtube series and more recently his youtube series called Qt Widgets and More.

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