Keeps a hash of strings against their corresponding offsets within the qt_meta_stringdata sequence of null terminated strings. Returns a proc to get an offset given a string. That proc also adds new strings to the ‘data’ array, and updates the corresponding ‘pack_str’ Array#pack template.

Source Code

# File qt/qtruby4.rb, line 2421
def Internal.string_table_handler(data, pack_str)
        hsh = {}
        offset = 0
        return lambda do |str|
                if !hsh.has_key? str
                        hsh[str] = offset
                        data << str
                        pack_str << "a*x"
                        offset += str.length + 1
                end

                return hsh[str]
        end
end