Store objects of different types in a container

Question

I have two objects QColor, QFont and there's a possibility of adding more.
I want to store that objects in a container for instance QList but this container needs one type of data.

QFont font = QFontDialog::getFont(&fontDlgRet, initFont, parent);
QColor color = QColorDialog::getColor(initColor, parent);

Is there a container accepts adding different types of objects?

Might be a dupe: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7804955/heterogeneous-containers-in-c — NathanOliver, Jul 05 '17 at 16:40
Also, IIRC they are both derived from `QObject` so you could have a `QList`. — NathanOliver, Jul 05 '17 at 16:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 05 '17 at 17:02

Is there a container accepts adding different types of objects?

Yes: QVariantList, QVariantMap, QVariantHash.

You can also roll your own manually, like std::vector<QVariant> for instance.

See http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qvariant.html

Also, note that loosing type information like this is frowned upon and bad practice. If you have a finite set of types you can use std::variant instead.

Store objects of different types in a container

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