Works fine for me, I tried this-
QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl::fromLocalFile("c:/Qt"));
and it opened up Windows Explorer with that directory. On Qt5.4.1 MSVC 2010
32bit.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Felix morack <felixo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am porting code from Qt4 to Qt5 and the behavior of
> QDesktopServices::openUrl() seems to have changed.
>
> We want to open a folder/path in the default explorer shell, which was
> done like so:
>
> QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl::fromLocalFile("c:/testdir/");
>
> Even though it says "from local file" it would open the directory just
> fine, and there are several forum entries online that recommend doing just
> that.
>
> However, in Qt5 the same code fails silently at runtime due to it not
> pointing to a valid file. The documentation has remained the same.
>
>
> Was there a silent change in behavior? Is this a regression? What is the
> recommended way to open a path in the default shell?
>
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