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arunkumaraymuo1
6th August 2012, 16:59
I am trying to save a page settings of a printer for future use in my application

I tried this bot not worked because m_printer is not a variant type its the object QPrinter

objVar= m_settings.value("PrinterSettings", m_printer);
m_printer = objVar.value<QPrinter>();


m_settings.setValue("PrinterSettings", m_printer);



How to save printer settings and re asign to next time use

d_stranz
7th August 2012, 00:16
You must retrieve each of the page settings you are interested in and save them individually:



QSettings settings( "MyOrg", "MyApp" );
settings.setValue( "PaperSize", m_printer.paperSize() );
settings.setValue( "ColorMode", m_printer.colorMode() );
// etc.

m_printer.setPaperSize( QPrinter::PaperSize( settings.value( "PaperSize" ).toInt() ) );
m_printer.setColorMode( QPrinter::ColorMode( settings.value( "ColorMode" ).toInt() ) );
// etc.


Basically, you can't convert a QPrinter instance into a QVariant for use in setValue(). So, you must store each setting separately, with type conversions as appropriate.