Qt-interest Archive, October 2006
Re: QFileDialog and My Documents
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On Thursday 21 September 2006 23:25, Derrick Johnson wrote:
> I'm having a brain freeze here...How do you get QFileDialog to open into
> the directory set for the My Documents folder in Windows? Assuming I don't
> know the path to put into:
>
> fileName = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(this, caption, directory, ...)
>
> How do I find out the path for the My Documents folder to be able to
> initiate the Open File dialog and default to this path?
>
> Thanks,
> -D
Qt doesn't currently provide a way to get that value, but you can get it out
of the registry easily enough using QSettings.
QSettings settings(QSettings::UserScope, "Microsoft", "Windows");
settings.beginGroup("CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders");
return settings.value("Personal").toString();
-Benjamin Meyer
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