Display filenames on a QpushButton
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Hello ! I'm trying to do a menu where the user can select a file to open just by clicking on a button.
Basically, that means that i want to get all filenames from a directory and create a button for each file (number of file and their names can change).
I managed to get filenames thanks to QFileInfoList but the best i can do is display it in shell...
Is what i'm trying to do even possible, and if so, what do i have to use ? -
Hi and welcome to the forums.
Yes that is very possible.
Do you want pushbuttons? You can also use a listwidget which is
a list of strings. it can also have icons etc. ( and each item can be clicked)But yes you can generate a lots of buttons and use the file name as button text.
( you need a default gui project with mainwindow and place the buttons there )What will open the file ?
I mean what should happen when you click it ?
Open the file in your own app or call OS to open the default app assigned to that file type?Also this sample might be useful
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-dialogs-findfiles-example.html -
Hello ! I'm trying to do a menu where the user can select a file to open just by clicking on a button.
Basically, that means that i want to get all filenames from a directory and create a button for each file (number of file and their names can change).
I managed to get filenames thanks to QFileInfoList but the best i can do is display it in shell...
Is what i'm trying to do even possible, and if so, what do i have to use ?@EL_Mambo
Hi. Wouldn't it make more sense to list all the files in a list, and then open the file you want simply by clicking on the corresponding entry in the list? You may even add an "Open" button to each row in such a list, e.g. in the second column, to make it extra clear to the user they can open the file by clicking.Putting all in a listview would save you such headaches as to dimension the size of your buttons for different filenames and how to layout the buttons if you really have a lot of them. Using a list, you could simply scroll, or resize the column that contains the filename, etc..
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@EL_Mambo
Hi. Wouldn't it make more sense to list all the files in a list, and then open the file you want simply by clicking on the corresponding entry in the list? You may even add an "Open" button to each row in such a list, e.g. in the second column, to make it extra clear to the user they can open the file by clicking.Putting all in a listview would save you such headaches as to dimension the size of your buttons for different filenames and how to layout the buttons if you really have a lot of them. Using a list, you could simply scroll, or resize the column that contains the filename, etc..
