Storing enum in a list?

lansing

I'm making a simple find and replace function for my text editor. And there are a few checkbox for the flnd flags like "match case" and "whole words". When the find button is clicked, the checkbox selections will be stored in a QMap<QString, bool> and send along with the search text to the find function.

In the find function I will unpack the findFlags QMap and check their state to add flags like QTextDocument::FindCaseSensitively to the find function. I want to store these enum in something like a QStringList that at the end I can paste them in the find function in one go like this.

editor->find(a_text, findFlagsList.join(" | "))

// I want it to print out like this
editor->find(a_text, QTextDocument::FindCaseSensitively | QTextDocument::FindWholeWords)

mrjj

Hi
But why a string list ?
You can just store them as QFlags<FindFlag>
And give that directly to editor->find
You can no do that with strings.

lansing

@mrjj

Hi I tried QFlags<FindFlag> findFlags but I got the error unknown type name 'FindFlag'

mrjj

Hi
Its

QFlags<QTextDocument::FindFlag> findFlags;

lansing

@mrjj

Hi how do I add QTextDocument::FindFlag enum to this variable? It only allows me to assign the flags in one time.

findFlags = QTextDocument::FindCaseSensitively | QTextDocument::FindWholeWords;

I want to do it like

if (matchCaseChecked) {
    findFlags += QTextDocument::FindCaseSensitively;
}

if (wholeWordsChecked) {
    findFlags += QTextDocument::FindWholeWords;
}

mrjj

@lansing
Hi
You can still just OR them together
if (matchCaseChecked) {
findFlags |= QTextDocument::FindCaseSensitively;
}

lansing

@mrjj

This is what I'm looking for, thank you.