File Open dialog with preview?

[will49]

I'm looking for a file open dialog that allows a custom preview of the contents file selected in the dialog. Kind of like what Photoshop and other applications did. Preview can be either text or graphical.

Does Qt have anything like that? If not, any pointers on the best way to go about making one?

Thanks

[marcel]

Qt does not have it. You must implement it yourself.

It is not easy to say how to achieve this.
Photoshop does everything internal.

So, I guess this is the best way to do it. This is how I'd do it.

Regards

[fullmetalcoder]

Should be easy enough :

1. Create a custom preview widget
2. Add it to the dialog :

   fileOpenDialog.layout()->addWidget(new MyPreviewWidget)

   fileOpenDialog.layout()->addWidget(new MyPreviewWidget)

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3. connect the dialog signals to appropriate slots of your preview widget so as to update its content...

I myself hacked a similar preview widget (but not for use with this dialog). The code was a bit crappy but if you want I can send it to you so that you have an idea of how to get started...

To allow displaying different types of content I would recommend using a stacked widget with a label for images, a text edit/text browser for text files, ...