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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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Is there a difference between QFileDialog strings in PyQt4 and PyQt5?

I have a block of code that opens a QFileDialog using Python3 and PyQt5: from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QPushButton, QFileDialog import sys class MCVE(QWidget): def __init__(self): super().__init__() …
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QFile Dialog doesn't display on the Top

I have several Dialogs with window Flags as WindowStaysonTopHint. When I open QFileDialog it displays at the bottom of these dialogs. How to set window Flag for QFileDialog. I use the following code to display the dialog at the top but it doesn't…
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Adding QFileDialog as a widget inside another QDialog

I'm attempting to create a dialog which contains two child widgets: on the left side a QFileDialog instance so users can select files, and on the right side a separate widget which will be used to show a preview of the selected file if it is of a…
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QFileDialog problem (native: fast but no input field; non-native: has input field but slow)

This seems a known problem but I have not found a good workaround. I like the style of the non-native QFileDialog, especially the feature that allows the user to input the path directly which is very convenient since the user can easily copy/paste…
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How can I tell if a QFileDialog was closed without selecting a file?

I have been trying to figure this out for a few days and haven't figured it out yet. Basically I am using a QFileDialog to select a file but if i close the window with out choosing a file the program crashes. How do i tell if there was no file…
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PyQt5 application closes after choosing file on QFileDialog

I am trying to write an application on PyQt5 that opens an image through QFileDialog and displays it on the main window. This is the code: import sys from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt from PyQt5.QtGui import QPixmap, QIcon from PyQt5.QtWidgets import…
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getOpenFileName - preselect last opened not working

In my application I need to load many images. I would really use an option to select the last opened file, so I would like to know the last selected file. Documentation says: QString fileName = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(this, tr("Open File"), …
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Disable QWebEngineView access to QFileDialog

I'm trying to develop a browser that allows downloads but disables all ways for uploading something to the internet. I developed the browser with PyQt5 but I can't figure out how to disable the FileDialog (ex when clicking on add an attachment in…
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PyQt with custom slots works, Qt designer does not

I am trying to build a GUI around some code that I already have. I understand how to do this when building the GUI manually, but am stuck when adding this to the python code generated by Qt Designer and pyuic. As an example, I might need a button…
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PyQt5 - Get QGridLayout of QFileDialog

I'm trying create my own QFileDialog in PyQt5 to make some slight modifications to its original QGridLayout. In PyQt4, I simply subclassed QFileDialog and called self.layout() somewhere in the __init__, which returned QFileDialog's QGridLayout and…
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How to control a QFileDialog using Qt Test?

I have 2 questions: How can I access a QFileDialog and write the path of a file in the "File name" field using the Qt Test module? I am asking that because I am developing some GUI tests in Qt and now I need to open a text file. The following code…
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QFileDialog view folders and files but select folders only?

I'm creating my own custom file dialog using the following code: file_dialog =…
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PyQt QFileDialog getOpenFileName not working from command line (windows)

I'm trying to make a gui (Qt Designer) to import an excel file and display the data in the gui. The script works fine when I run it from within my IDE (Spyder), but if I run it from the command window or by opening the python file from windows…
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FileDialog shows different interface with Python3 vs QML

I have a python file and a qml file. There is a button in the qml file to load a FileDialog. When I directly use qmlscene test.qml, the FileDialog is ok. But when I use python3 main.py, the FileDialog is strange, and I can't select a file by it.…
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How specify file filter in QFileDialog::getExistingDirectory?

I need to choose a directory with files "*.in". But if i use getExistingDirectory, i can't specify file filter, so i can't see files. But i need to see ONLY "*.in" files, i could be only choose a directory, not a file. Now i use this code: qDebug()…
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