added ability to completely remove settings; docs

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Andreas Preikschat 2013-01-12 10:01:58 +01:00
parent fa6703f307
commit aaafbdf2ea

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@ -63,6 +63,14 @@ class Settings(QtCore.QSettings):
``IniFormat``, and the path to the Ini file is set using ``setFilename``,
then the Settings constructor (without any arguments) will create a Settings
object for accessing settings stored in that Ini file.
``__obsolete_settings__``
Put any settings whose key changes or is removed here. In the case that the key is completely removed just leave
the dict value for this key empty (empty string). If you renamed a key, but the old name first and the new name
as value for this key.
``__default_settings__``
This dict contains all core settings with their default values.
"""
__filePath__ = u''
@ -237,11 +245,13 @@ class Settings(QtCore.QSettings):
def remove_obsolete_settings(self):
"""
This method is only called to clean up the config. It removes all changed keys, but before doing so, we copy
the value to the new key.
This method is only called to clean up the config. It does two things: First it completely remove old settings
(to do this, just leave the new_key empty). And it copies the value from old_key to new_key and then removes the
old_key.
"""
for old_key, new_key in Settings.__obsolete_settings__.items():
if self.contains(old_key):
if new_key:
# Copy the value from the old_key to the new_key.
self.setValue(new_key, super(Settings, self).value(old_key))
self.remove(old_key)