Qt-interest Archive, June 2007
The RIGHT WAY to append a file to a path via QDir
Message 1 in thread
Hi. I want to create a string containing an absolute file path for a
file - let's say its called "foo.txt" and I want to place it in the
system temporary directory.
So, currently I have code that looks like this:
QString myFileName = QString("foo.txt");
QString myPath = QString("%1%2").arg(QDir::tempPath()).arg(myFileName);
On MacOS X, code like this was working, but on Windows it fails
because I guess the tempPath() method returns a path that doesn't end
with a separator.
Therefore, I tried this:
QString myFileName = QString("foo.txt");
QString myPath;
QString & tempPath = QDir::tempPath;
if (tempPath.endsWith(QDir::separator())) {
myPath = QString("%1%2").arg(tempPath).arg(myFileName);
} else {
myPath =
QString("%1%2%3).arg(tempPath).arg(QDir::separator()).arg(myFileName);
}
This doesn't work either because for whatever reason, the string that
QDir::tempPath() returns uses forward slash characters and the
QDir::separator() call produces a backslash.
Is there an actual facility for doing this extremely common task that
I am just not seeing in the docs?
Brant Sears
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Message 2 in thread
How about this:
QFileInfo fileInfo (QDir::tempPath(), "foo.txt")
QString myPath = fileInfo.absoluteFilePath();
Clint
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 3:30:08 pm Brant Sears wrote:
> Hi. I want to create a string containing an absolute file path for a
> file - let's say its called "foo.txt" and I want to place it in the
> system temporary directory.
>
> So, currently I have code that looks like this:
>
> QString myFileName = QString("foo.txt");
> QString myPath = QString("%1%2").arg(QDir::tempPath()).arg(myFileName);
>
> On MacOS X, code like this was working, but on Windows it fails
> because I guess the tempPath() method returns a path that doesn't end
> with a separator.
>
> Therefore, I tried this:
>
> QString myFileName = QString("foo.txt");
> QString myPath;
> QString & tempPath = QDir::tempPath;
>
> if (tempPath.endsWith(QDir::separator())) {
> myPath = QString("%1%2").arg(tempPath).arg(myFileName);
> } else {
> myPath =
> QString("%1%2%3).arg(tempPath).arg(QDir::separator()).arg(myFileName);
> }
>
> This doesn't work either because for whatever reason, the string that
> QDir::tempPath() returns uses forward slash characters and the
> QDir::separator() call produces a backslash.
>
> Is there an actual facility for doing this extremely common task that
> I am just not seeing in the docs?
>
> Brant Sears
>
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Message 3 in thread
Hi,
Brant Sears wrote:
> Hi. I want to create a string containing an absolute file path for a
> file - let's say its called "foo.txt" and I want to place it in the
> system temporary directory.
<snip>
> Is there an actual facility for doing this extremely common task that I
> am just not seeing in the docs?
How about:
QDir::temp().absoluteFilePath( "foo.txt" );
Tim
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