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Phlucious
Phlucious

Reputation: 3843

How do I open a file on server using the default program in Qt?

Everything I read indicates that QDesktopServices::openUrl is the platform-agnostic way to open a document using the default program, and it works great, almost all of the time.

I say almost, because it always seems to fail if I pass it a network path. Combing through the source I see that ShellExecute returns error code 2.

Example:

QUrl localpath = QUrl::fromLocalFile("C:/temp/myfile.txt");
QUrl networkpath = QUrl::fromLocalFile("//192.168.0.5/my folder/myfile.txt");

QDesktopServices::openUrl(localpath);     //works fine
QDesktopServices::openUrl(networkpath);   //always fails

Is there a way I can clean up a network path to open correctly? I'm running Qt 4.8 on Windows. Switching the forward slashes to backslashes doesn't help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1105

Answers (1)

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 11

You should use QUrl::TolerantMode if you have spaces in your path. try this:

QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl("file:////192.168.0.5/my folder/myfile.txt", QUrl::TolerantMode));

Upvotes: 1

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