make comphelper::sequenceToContainer a little smarter

so we don't have to specify the source type

Change-Id: I4106705a39874a8043f0f294a11374404d6cfc3a
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/30713Tested-by: Jenkins <ci@libreoffice.org>
Reviewed-by: Noel Grandin <noel.grandin@collabora.co.uk>

canvas/source/directx/dx_canvashelper.cxx

@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ namespace dxcanvas
                 aPen.SetMiterLimit( static_cast< Gdiplus::REAL >(strokeAttributes.MiterLimit) );
 
             const ::std::vector< Gdiplus::REAL >& rDashArray(
-                ::comphelper::sequenceToContainer< ::std::vector< Gdiplus::REAL > >(
+                ::comphelper::sequenceToContainer< ::std::vector< Gdiplus::REAL >, double >(
                     strokeAttributes.DashArray ) );
             if( !rDashArray.empty() )
             {

include/comphelper/sequence.hxx

@@ -340,6 +340,15 @@ namespace comphelper
         return result;
     }
 
+    // this one does better type deduction, but does not allow us to copy into a different element type
+    template < typename DstType >
+    inline DstType sequenceToContainer( const css::uno::Sequence< typename DstType::value_type >& i_Sequence )
+    {
+        DstType result( i_Sequence.getLength() );
+        ::std::copy( i_Sequence.begin(), i_Sequence.end(), result.begin() );
+        return result;
+    }
+
     /** Copy from a Sequence into an existing container
 
         This potentially saves a needless extra copy operation over

svl/source/passwordcontainer/passwordcontainer.cxx

@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ void SAL_CALL PasswordContainer::addPersistent( const OUString& Url, const OUStr
 void PasswordContainer::PrivateAdd( const OUString& Url, const OUString& UserName, const Sequence< OUString >& Passwords, char Mode, const Reference< XInteractionHandler >& aHandler ) throw(RuntimeException, std::exception)
 {
     NamePassRecord aRecord( UserName );
-    ::std::vector< OUString > aStorePass = comphelper::sequenceToContainer< std::vector<OUString>, OUString>( Passwords );
+    ::std::vector< OUString > aStorePass = comphelper::sequenceToContainer< std::vector<OUString> >( Passwords );
 
     if( Mode == PERSISTENT_RECORD )
         aRecord.SetPersPasswords( EncodePasswords( aStorePass, GetMasterPassword( aHandler ) ) );

vcl/source/gdi/svgdata.cxx

@@ -131,8 +131,7 @@ void SvgData::ensureSequenceAndRange()
             {
                 const uno::Reference< graphic::XSvgParser > xSvgParser = graphic::SvgTools::create(xContext);
 
-                maSequence = comphelper::sequenceToContainer<std::deque<css::uno::Reference< css::graphic::XPrimitive2D >>,
-                                                             css::uno::Reference< css::graphic::XPrimitive2D >>(xSvgParser->getDecomposition(myInputStream, maPath));
+                maSequence = comphelper::sequenceToContainer<std::deque<css::uno::Reference< css::graphic::XPrimitive2D >>>(xSvgParser->getDecomposition(myInputStream, maPath));
             }
             catch(const uno::Exception&)
             {