Obsolete Members for QImageWriter | Qt GUI 5.12.5

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# Obsolete Members for QImageWriter

The following members of class QImageWriter are obsolete. They are provided to keep old source code working. We strongly advise against using them in new code.

## Public Functions

`(obsolete)` QString | description() const
`(obsolete)` void | setDescription(const QString &description)

## Member Function Documentation

### QString QImageWriter::description() const

This function is obsolete. It is provided to keep old source code working. We strongly advise against using it in new code.

Use QImageReader::text() instead.

Returns the description of the image.

See also setDescription().

### void QImageWriter::setDescription(const QString &description)

This function is obsolete. It is provided to keep old source code working. We strongly advise against using it in new code.

Use setText() instead.

This is an image format specific function that sets the description of the image to description. For image formats that do not support setting the description, this value is ignored.

The contents of description depends on the image format.

See also description().