How do I get the complete file path of the file selected by the user

[wizzyrider]

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[Christian Ehrlicher]

I already asked you on stackoverflow - when you fill the list you should know where you get it from / what's the path where they're coming from - so add it afterwards again.

[wizzyrider]

@Christian-Ehrlicher yea the list shows the files in a specific resource file, this is the code for the list

QDir dir(":/entertainment /files");
for (const QFileInfo &file : dir.entryInfoList(QDir::Files))
{
QListWidgetItem *item = new QListWidgetItem(file.fileName());
item->setData(Qt::UserRole, file.absolutePath());
item->setIcon(QIcon(":/img/images/video.png"));
ui->entertain->addItem(item);
}

[JonB]

@wizzyrider
So what is the question?

[wizzyrider]

@JonB i want to get the url of the resource file that the user selected from the list of files

[JonB]

@wizzyrider

• Do you want to tell us what your file.absolutePath() produced, or leave us to guess?

• It's presumably :/entertainment /files followed by file.fileName() that you want, no? [EDIT: Since I copied & pasted your code, I notice you have a space in that literal path: I doubt that is correct?]

• What do you think you are going to do with a URL that points into a resource file?

[wizzyrider]

@JonB

• The file.absolutepath gives me the file path of the project file location and it is not what i want just something i tried to get what i want

• I am developing a media player, i want to get the url so that i can use that url to direct the media player to that location to play the video

I am sorry if i am not clear with my question I am new to Qt and doesn't have much experience with it

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@wizzyrider said in How do I get the complete file path of the file selected by the user:

and it is not what i want just something i tried to get what i want

Please re-read this and try to understand yourself what you want and what you want to tell us with this.

i want to get the url so that

Which media player?
See QUrl::fromLocalFile()