Point QFileDialog to 'This PC'

Crag_Hack

Hi I want a QFileDialog to open the This PC folder in Windows by default. I have tried passing the following to QFileDialog::getExistingDirectory(this, "Select Target Directory", enter folder here);:

::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
file:\\
file:
shell:mycomputerfolder

Is this possible? If so how? Thanks!

Chris Kawa

You need to use the url variant of the method with a clsid scheme:

QFileDialog::getExistingDirectoryUrl(this, "Select Target Directory", QUrl("clsid:0AC0837C-BBF8-452A-850D-79D08E667CA7"))

Crag_Hack

@Chris-Kawa Thanks. QUrl doesn't convert to QString for the QFileDialog and if I do .toString() it doesn't work.

mchinand

@Chris-Kawa said in Point QFileDialog to 'This PC':

QFileDialog::getExistingDirectoryUrl

The static method @Chris-Kawa mentioned for you to use is QFileDialog::getExistingDirectoryUrl()

which takes a QUrl() as one of its parameters. https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qfiledialog.html#getExistingDirectoryUrl

Crag_Hack

Ah IC thanks, sorry bout that I can be a flaky coder sometimes