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Where should I place a user configurable resource file?
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I would like to include a config.xml file with my app that will let the user tweak some settings that are read on startup. It needs to be user editable, so I can't put into a compiled qrc file. I'm trying to figure out the correct place to put it in my project directory; it needs to be copied to both my Debug and Release directories and I also need to be able to load it with
QFile("config.xml");
(or some similar local path).
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Hi,
You can have a default version in qrc so that if:
- It's the application first start
- The user breaks the file
you can re-use that one.
As for the location, you can use QStandardPaths::writableLocation with
QStandardPaths::AppConfigLocation
to get a proper location for that file.