I have discovered what the problem was: The folder actually did not exist.
-_-
I feel so dumb right now. Sorry.
2015-04-08 11:30 GMT+02:00 Shantanu Tushar <shaan...@gmail.com>:
> 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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