QDesktopServices::openUrl with location hash fails on Windows and Mac

[ChrisW67]

The file: scheme URL is ultimately converted to a file path using QUrl::toLocalFile() in the QDesktopServices code, and it is this that strips the fragment identifier (which is defined for the http scheme but not file). If you paste the same file: URL into the Windows run box you get the same result, so even if Qt did not do this, Windows would.

You could try installing your own URL handler (see QDesktopServices::setUrlHandler()) and use it to launch a browser directly. Then, for example, the URL local://path/to/file#fragment can do anything you like in response to openUrl().

[mtnbiker66]

So then I can't rely on the default handler -- my help document is originally a PDF but when I couldn't get the "#page=20" to work I converted it to HTML. Last night I was reading up on the QDesktopServices::setUrlHandler() and thinking that might be the way to go so thanks for confirming.

Your first paragraph is exactly what I saw when I was testing.

Thanks!

Kodi

[didcea]

Hi,

I'm very interesting by what you try to do.
Are you succed to open pdf file with #page=X extension using "QDesktopServices::setUrlHandler() ?