Generating GUID

[Indrajeet]

Hi All

I want to generate GUID in QT?
Can anyone tell me please how to generate it.

I went through the QUuid class but here we have to pass all the parameters to generate GUID.

[Jupiter]

@QUuid::createUuid ()@ static member

[Indrajeet]

Hi Nazgul

THanks for reply.

But this is not for windows,I want to do it in windows platform & at runtime i want to generate it.
So how to do that?

[andre]

The documentation does not say that this functionality is windows-only, does it?

[Jupiter]

well i have to agree to andre. and i also use it on windows. so it works

[ExtraLeonard]

Try this:
http://www.guidgenerator.com/online-guid-generator.aspx

[MuldeR]

If you just need to generate GUID's, there is a small tool "guidgen.exe" included with the Windows SDK.

And if you want to do it programmatically via Win32 API, instead of QUuid, you can use the CoCreateGuid().

http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/windows/desktop/ms688568(v=vs.85).aspx

Still I don't understand what is wrong with QUuid::createUuid() ???

[hatfarm]

I believe he was just thrown off by the way that is written in the documentation.

The first line of the QUuid::createUuid() is:

"On any platform other than Windows, this function returns a new UUID with variant QUuid::DCE and version QUuid::Random."

However, at the end it says that on Windows it will create a GUID, so you should be getting what you want with that.