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    Default QFileDialog selecting file or directory

    Hi,

    I want a QFileDialog that could select "mp3" extension files and also a directory could be selected(note that I only want one selection, so you can select one MP3 file or a directory).
    I've inserted "Music (*.mp3)" as filter but don't know how to let it select dirs.

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    Default Re: QFileDialog selecting file or directory

    Hi,

    Have solved it just calling "setFileMode(QFileDialog:irectory)" to the dialog.
    The problem is that now the dialog is different that if I use the static function "QFileDialog::getOpenFileName". It is not look native and it is not translated.

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    Òscar Llarch i Galán

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    Default Re: QFileDialog selecting file or directory

    I hope that 'll be useful .
    That's Code I use to filter JPG & set the path @ a Label :

    Qt Code:
    1. QFileDialog::Options options;
    2.  
    3. options |= QFileDialog::DontUseNativeDialog;
    4. QString selectedFilter;
    5.  
    6. QString fileName = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(this,
    7. tr("Open"),
    8. formTwo.lblSelectedFilePath->text(),
    9. tr("JPEG (*.JPG)"),
    10. &selectedFilter,
    11. options);
    12.  
    13.  
    14. if (!fileName.isEmpty())
    15. formTwo.lblSelectedFilePath->setText(fileName);
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    Default Re: QFileDialog selecting file or directory

    Hi,

    I'm having the problem yet. The dialog only let me selec directories now.

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    Òscar Llarch i Galán

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    Default Re: QFileDialog selecting file or directory

    This fails for me. I can only select files. No way to select the directory without opening it up. The question was how to select a file, or a directory. This only selects files.
    -- Doug Royer (https://DougRoyer.US)

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    Default Re: QFileDialog selecting file or directory

    If you are using the QFileDialog static methods, then you call QFileDialog::getExistingDirectory() to select directories only and QFileDialog::getOpenFileName() for files only. If you are using the non-static method (ie. via QFileDialog::exec()) than you set the option QFileDialog::ShowDirsOnly and use QFileDialog::Directory file mode.

    The original post is 13 years old, during Qt 3 or Qt 4 days. Qt is three major revisions past that now.
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