// Copyright (C) 2023 The Qt Company Ltd.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-only

/*!
    \module QtProtobufQtGuiTypes
    \modulestate Technical Preview
    \title Protobuf Qt GUI types module
    \ingroup frameworks-technologies
    \qtcmakepackage ProtobufQtGuiTypes
    \qtvariable protobufqtguitypes
    \since 6.6

    \brief Provides support for using native Qt Gui types in protobuf.

    Qt::ProtobufQtGuiTypes is a library with pre-defined protobuf messages
    designed to encapsulate a selection of Qt Gui types.

    List of supported Qt Gui types:
    \list
        \li QImage
        \li QMatrix4x4
        \li QQuaternion
        \li QRgba64
        \li QColor
        \li QTransform
        \li QVector2D
        \li QVector3D
        \li QVector4D
    \endlist

    \section1 Qt GUI usage
    To enable Qt GUI types support, add ProtobufQtGuiTypes as a dependency
    to your CMake project:
    \badcode
        ...
        find_package(Qt REQUIRED COMPONENTS Protobuf ProtobufQtGuiTypes)
        ... # After target creation
        target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE Qt::ProtobufQtGuiTypes)
    \endcode

    Before any serialization or deserialization of messages that use Qt GUI
    types as fields, call the registration method:
    \code
        // e.g. in main.cpp
        QtProtobuf::qRegisterProtobufQtGuiTypes();
        ...
    \endcode

    All supported messages are described in a special .proto file,
    \e {QtGui.proto}, that describes Qt types from the Qt GUI module.

    You can also use the file to generate code for other
    languages or frameworks.

    Import the required Qt GUI types module in your interface .proto file
    For example:
    \badcode
        syntax = "proto3";

        package project.module.component;

        import "QtGui/QtGui.proto";

        message QMatrix4x4Message {
            QtGui.QMatrix4x4 matrix = 1;
        }
    \endcode

    The QtProtobuf generator detects Qt GUI types, supplied by the
    ProtobufQtGuiTypes package, and uses them directly. This gives
    you the flexibility to use these types without additional conversion.

    \section2 QImage serialization
    The ProtobufQtGuiTypes library provides the possibility to work with the
    QImage class. Usually, the library converts all QImage objects in
    to \c PNG format. But if the QImage was created using
    \l {https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qimage.html#Format-enum} a
    {floating point formats}, then conversion to \c PNG will lead
    to data loss. To prevent data loss, the library automatically converts
    the image file to \c TIFF format, if it is supported by the system,
    otherwise converts to \c PNG.
    \note if you don't want to use \c TIFF, you need to convert the image
    explicitly into a non-floating point format.
*/
