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QFileDialog is a class from the Qt toolkit which provides a dialog allowing users to select files or directories.

Documentation can be found here (Qt4) and here (Qt5).

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code crash after opening a QfileDialog in a QThread

I wrote a code who display in a GUI, the steps of calcul of an algorithm. For this, i use a QThread which is in charge to check the steps and display it in a GUI. This alone is working. However, the first step for the user is to select a…
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QFileDialog: add suffix after selecting file

I need to add suffix to selected filename in QFileDialog with QFileDialog::AcceptSave accept mode. For example, after selecting "1.txt" file in QFileDialog edit should be select "1_suffix.txt". It should be added before file accepting, because I…
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'selectedFilters' is not a valid keyword argument

I use PyQt5 and I have an error when I try to save the file name : csv_file_list = QtWidgets.QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self, 'Open file', '', '*.csv') fileName = csv_file_list fileName = QtWidgets.QFileDialog.getSaveFileName(self,…
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QFileDialog closes window when called

This if my first time asking a question here so please forgive me for any mistakes. So my problem is when I run my program it works fine. But as soon as I click Search the program closes. I use self.pushButton_5.cicked.connect(run) to call on a…
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pyqt QFileDialog.getOpenFileName() get path of the directory of the file

I'm searching for a way to get the path of the directory of the file that I have chosen by QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(). I know that you can access it by os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(filename), but I'm searching for a better way because I need…
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How to set the directory separator character to match the operating system?

I am writing a qt application, with the goal of it being portable to the 3 major operating systems. I am using QFileDialog to select a folder, and then adding it to a QListWidget. However the folder name is being returned as E:/media even though I…
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C++ / Qt - QFileDialog::getOpenFileName() does not show expected extension on MAC OS X

I want to use a native file dialog to let the user choosing a .zip file So I call following Qt static method with zip extension as expected file type QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(0, "Please select a zip file", "/home", "*.zip"); The behaviour is…
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Qt remembering the last open folder

I am using QFileDialog::openfilename for taking a file from user as input and I have specified the default folder which is to be shown when user open dialog. But qt is somehow remembering the last open folder when filedialog is opened multiple…
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Qt Remote File Browser

I was wondering if anyone has worked on Qt Remote File Browser. From my understanding, I have two options; Use QFileDilaog with a custom proxy model when it comes to remote files. The model will be responsible for providing remote file/directory…
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Qt: Hide folders in getSaveFileName

I would like to save a file using QFileDialog::getSaveFileName without allowing to choose the path or at least hide folders. Reading the doc I tried to set QFileDialog::ShowDirsOnly as an option like this: QString fileName =…
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KDE writing (too many) in the console

I'm developping a Qt GUI application. My problem is that I use the console for another thread (it write his comunication in it), and the main problem is that when I create a QFileDialog (in order to select a script file), KDE is wrinting useless …
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Window modal QFileDialog pushing parent to background after exec()

I stripped my problem down to what it necessary, so don't mind that is does nothing useful as shown here. I have my MainWindow which is a QMainWindow with a QPushButton inside, and I connected the clicked() signal of that button to the following…
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PyQt: QtGui.QFileDialog.getSaveFileName won't close after selection

In my PyQt4 application, there is a functionality that allows users to save a avi file. To this aim, a saveMovie method has been implemented in the main window: def saveMovie(self): """ Let the user make a movie out of the current experiment.…
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QFileDialog history

i'm trying to set the history on the QFileDialog, but it doesn't seem to appear anywhere. QFileDialog dialog(parent, caption, path, filter); dialog.setHistory(history); dialog.exec(); But i don't see the history in the dialog anywhere. Where should…
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QDir absolutePath still returning the filename

QString FilePath2 = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(this, tr("Open Directory"), "C:/", tr("Text files (*.txt)")); QDir a = FilePath2; qDebug() << a.absolutePath(); Code works fine. But absolutePath() is still returning the path + filename instead of…
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