Qt-interest Archive, February 2007
Re: Image Drag/Drop on Windows
Message 1 in thread
Thanks,
P.S. On other lists I just replied to the email and it is sent back to
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work differently than most?
Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 31.01.07 13:54:05, Mike Adolf wrote:
>
>> Just as a follow up on the solution, using
>>
>
> Please don't send me private mails, send them to the list so others can
> benefit.
>
>
>> QStringList qsl = event->mimeData()->formats();
>> I found that the mime type is text/uri-list, which has "hasUrls()" as the check
>> and urls() as the getter.
>>
>> However, when getting the list of urls using
>> QList<QUrl> list = event->mimeData()->urls();
>> and converting to a qstring path using
>> list.at(0).path();
>> I was forced to append .remove(0,1) since the url as returned had a leading "/"
>> (a linux root ??)
>> /(real absolute window's path)
>>
>
> That is because the path of a URL is different from a filesystem path.
>
>
>> Then the image loaded and displayed fine.
>>
>> I used image.load(QString) which requires the path. I did not know how to use
>> the url directly.
>> I could still be doing something wrong, but this doesn't seem to be very
>> portable!
>>
>
> The portable way would be to use toLocalFile instead of path on the URL,
> thats how you get the operating system dependant path to the image.
>
> Andreas
>
>
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