How to create a directory with hidden attribute

[sanjayshelke]

Hi,

I am facing very small issue with creating directory with hidden attribute.

How to create a directory with hidden attribute. Strangely i could not found anything like this.


regards,
~Sanjay

[yogeshgokul]

I am facing very small issue with creating directory with hidden attribute.How to create a directory with hidden attribute. Strangely i could not found anything like this

There is not a platform independant way to do that.
On linux you can easily achieve it by calling :

QDir dir;
dir.mkdir(".I_AM_HIDDEN");//Dot in starting of name

QDir dir;
dir.mkdir(".I_AM_HIDDEN");//Dot in starting of name

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And for windows click here.

[sanjayshelke]

Thanks a lot for this information.

I was thinking that there must be some way to do that using Qt ( without using platform dependant code ).

How about the Mac OS X?

[yogeshgokul]

THow about the Mac OS X?

Its also UNIX based so ideally "dot before name" method should work.

[squidge]

I was thinking that there must be some way to do that using Qt ( without using platform dependant code ).

Qt has "setPermissions" but these don't include hidden attribute as only Windows has that function. Therefore you need to create a directory with a name starting with a '.' and then if on Windows you need to use windows-specific code to make that directory hidden. Some platforms may not support directories starting with a '.' (some smartphones).

There is no platform independant way of doing this.

[sanjayshelke]

Thanks a lot.

Yes finally i implemented the platform specific code for windows and Mac os x.

Mac OS X is unix based so putting '.' in front of the file makes the file hidden.


Thanks again.

[migel]

Can you share ?