From kde-devel  Mon Aug 02 09:09:08 1999
From: Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 09:09:08 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: locate and default return value
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93358490325537

Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> when locate()/findResource() can't find the desired file, it returns
> QString::null - can't we give it an additional parameter to be returned
> then? Just like KConfig does.

I've not been thinking about this for too long. Could you please provide
an example where this would be useful ? If findResouce() returns Null
the resource simply *doesn't* exist. I fail to see what you are going to
do with the name of file that isn't there ? Just curious.

Harri.

> 
> We would save the if (bla.isNull()), then.
> 
> It can have a default parameter QString::null, so no changes would have to
> be made to existing code.