That’s a different question... The contents of "/" on windows as defined by the win32 system calls, will return the data for the drive you are running the app on currently.. Ie, if you are running (your getcwd() return) is a C: drive, "/" will return the contents of C:, if running from D: it will return the contents of D:
Loading the data on "/" is not the same as loadng the root for the system, I would try "" Scott -----Original Message----- From: interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs....@qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs....@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 11:21 PM To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] When is QDir::Drives useful? Nope. I just tested it under Windows XP and 7. The contents of "/" are the contents of "C:/". Which makes sense, since Windows completely lacks the concept of a single root directory. So I guess the question remains open. On 31/07/12 09:10, Scott Aron Bloom wrote: > That has not been my experience... However, it has been a while since I have > used it. IIRC it would return the list of drives available ... > > Maybe some code would help us figure out what is going on. > > Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs....@qt-project.org > [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs....@qt-project.org] On > Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 11:00 PM > To: interest@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Interest] When is QDir::Drives useful? > > The root directory on Windows contains the root directory of the currently > active drive. If the current drive is C:, then the contents consist of stuff > like "Windows", "Program Files", "Users", etc. No drives in there. > > > On 31/07/12 08:26, André Somers wrote: >> How about the root directory on windows, for instance? >> >> André >> >> Op 31 jul. 2012 om 07:21 heeft Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> het >> volgende geschreven: >> >>> According to: >>> >>> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qdir.html#Filter-enum >>> >>> "QDir::Drives" lists drives. Which directory would you have to open >>> though that could possibly contain disk entries? _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
