<![CDATA[QFileDialog File/Directory field gets truncated]]>I happen to have a weird behavior of QFileDialog in my application. It is not consistent across different stations and debug/optimized versions, but it happens still.

I have a QfileDialog that opens with QFileDialog::ShowDirsOnly option, the 'File name' label at the bottom reads 'Directory:' and displays the current directory name right next to it.
I then start to type into that filed: "C:" and the file dialog starts to complete the path.
When doing so, I get a drop-down menu with all directories under "C:".
Then, I go ahead and type 't', which yields "C:\t", for which the menu below shows: "temp" and "tmp".
I then go down with the down arrow and stop at "temp".
As soon as I select 'temp', the directory field reads: "emp", instead of "C:\temp".

Does any one have any idea why this is happening and how can I resolve, or work-around it?
The system is Windows 7 and Qt version is 4.5.1.

Any comment will be appreciated.
Thanks.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/78565/qfiledialog-file-directory-field-gets-truncatedRSS for NodeFri, 24 Apr 2026 20:33:28 GMTMon, 24 Apr 2017 08:52:32 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to QFileDialog File/Directory field gets truncated on Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:57:43 GMT]]>@Ni.Sumi said in QFileDialog File/Directory field gets truncated:

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The code creating that dialog is:

QFileDialog *fd = new QFileDialog();
fd->setNameFilters(filtersList); // QStringList filterList...
fd->setDirectory(tmp); // QString tmp...
fd->setWindowTitle(QString("Open Directory"));
fd->setFileMode(QFileDialog::Directory);
fd->setOption(QFileDialog::ShowDirsOnly, true);
fd->setAcceptMode(QFileDialog::AcceptOpen);
fd->exec();

If pictures may help, please let me know how to upload them (could not find a way to do that).

Thanks.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/390211https://forum.qt.io/post/390211Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:57:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to QFileDialog File/Directory field gets truncated on Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:30:10 GMT]]>@Ni.Sumi
Thank you for your reply.
I may have not explained well the problem. The strange behavior I described is inside QFileDialog,
not after it is closed. It is a weird behavior that occurs while trying to select a directory. There seems to be no interference in QFileDialog behavior from the outside. I have other such dialogs in other parts of my application and they behave properly.
I was thinking that if someone else came across this kind of behavior and figured out what went wrong, that could give me a hint as for where to look into.

]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/389708https://forum.qt.io/post/389708Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:30:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to QFileDialog File/Directory field gets truncated on Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:04:34 GMT]]>@Raphy

If possible, post the piece of the code. It would be easy to find the error. :)

Edit:

Mostly these couple of lines will do , what you are looking.

QString file = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName();
 QDir dir = QFileInfo(file).absoluteDir();
qDebug() << dir;
]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/389669https://forum.qt.io/post/389669Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:04:34 GMT