Bugtracker #308: the "current date" preset for a project's default
title block doesn't persist. A later comment on the report pinpointed
it exactly: the setting falls back to "No date" unless the folio tab
remains active when saving settings, and the same happens in Project
Properties.
TitleBlockPropertiesWidget::properties() (and its near-duplicate
sibling propertiesAutoNum(), copy-pasted with the same bug) reads the
date radio buttons like this:
else if (ui->m_current_date_rb->isVisible() && ui->m_current_date_rb->isChecked()) {
prop.useDate = TitleBlockProperties::CurrentDate;
...
Both the New Project settings page and Project Properties embed this
widget as one page of a QTabWidget (NewDiagramPage, in
configpage/configpages.cpp). QWidget::isVisible() depends on the
whole ancestor chain being visible, not just the widget's own state --
switch to any other tab before clicking OK/Apply and this radio
button's isVisible() goes false even though it's still checked
underneath, silently falling through all three branches. The function
returns a default-constructed TitleBlockProperties for the date
fields (useDate = UseDateValue, date = QDate(), i.e. "no date"),
matching exactly what was reported.
Fix: use isHidden() instead, which reflects only this widget's own
explicit state and mirrors the read side's own check in
setProperties()/initDialog() just above it in the same file -- that
side already uses isHidden(), not isVisible(), for the identical
"is the current-date option even offered here" question.
Verified directly: a standalone Qt program constructing the real
NewDiagramPage, checking "current date", switching the tab widget
away from Folio to Conducteur (reproducing the report's exact
trigger), then calling applyConf() and reading back the QSettings
value. Against the original code this saves date="null"; with the
fix, date="now" -- the same scenario, same tab switch, only the one
line differs. Also confirmed a full Release build (504/504, CMake/
Ninja, Qt 5.15.18) with no new warnings.
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