Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Data type conversions between C++ and JavaScript

Qt will automatically convert arguments and return types of methods to its JavaScript counterparts. The supported conversions include the following:

• Basic types (bool, int, double, and such) are exposed without changes
• Qt data types (QString, QUrl, QColor, QFont, QDate, QPoint, QSize, QRect, QMatrix4x4, QQuaternion, QVector2D, and such) are converted to objects with the available properties
• QDateTime and QTime values are automatically converted to JavaScript Date objects
• Enums declared with Q_ENUM macro can be used in JavaScript
• Flags declared with Q_FLAG macro can be used as flags in JavaScript
• QObject* pointers will be automatically converted to JavaScript wrapper objects
• QVariant objects ...