QFileDialog How to hide linux hidden/backup folders (“.folder”)

[toglia3d]

Basically when browsing folders inside a QFileDialog I find very annoying to have everything bloated with hidden or backup folders (don't know how to call them really); specially on "home" where programs leave their data...

Is there a way to prevent these type of folders (the ones who start with a dot) from showing by default on a QFileDialog?

I'm using Qt4.6, getOpenFileName and Ubuntu 10.04.

P.D.: I spent a couple hours looking for this on the web but found nothing.

[tbscope]

P.D.: I spent a couple hours looking for this on the web but found nothing.

33 seconds it took to find:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/qfiledialog.html#setFilter
which points to
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/qdir.html#Filter-enum

;-)

[toglia3d]

Am I not excluding hidden folders with this?

QFileDialog openDialog;
openDialog.setFilter(QDir::Dirs | QDir::Files);
htmlFile = openDialog.getOpenFileName(
	this,
	tr("Open html file"),
	rutaCargarSetting,
	tr("*.html *.htm")
);

QFileDialog openDialog;
openDialog.setFilter(QDir::Dirs | QDir::Files);
htmlFile = openDialog.getOpenFileName(
	this,
	tr("Open html file"),
	rutaCargarSetting,
	tr("*.html *.htm")
);

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Doesn't seem to work. I also tried something like:

htmlFile = openDialog.getOpenFileName(
	this,
	tr("Open html file"),
	rutaCargarSetting,
	tr("*.html *.htm"),
	QDir::Dirs & QDir::Files
);

htmlFile = openDialog.getOpenFileName(
	this,
	tr("Open html file"),
	rutaCargarSetting,
	tr("*.html *.htm"),
	QDir::Dirs & QDir::Files
);

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Doesn't work either.

[toglia3d]

Sorry for that. it Actually does work. But the getOpenFileName probably is overriding the filters...

I will have to manually exec the dialog.

[wysota]

QFileDialog::getOpenFileNames() is a static method and (QDir::Dirs & QDir::Files) = 0.

[toglia3d]

This is off topic.

I find incredibly weird that native dialogs are only intended to show with the static methods. And as I read there is no workaround.

[wysota]

Sure there is a workaround. Use the native API. Is there something in particular you are missing in the static call?