[Development] QStandardPath search paths

[Alan Alpert]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> On quarta-feira, 31 de julho de 2013 11:05:56, Alan Alpert wrote:
>> Search paths make "asset:/main.qml" work on all platforms. I don't see
>> how QStandardPaths::locate would work here other than
>>
>> #ifndef Q_OS_ANDROID
>> QStandardPaths::locate(AssetPath, "main.qml");
>> #else
>> "asset:/main.qml";
>> #endif
>
> Why can't QStandardPaths::locate return "asset:/main.qml" ?

Because it's not a proper filepath. Or does not not matter so long as
we maintain the VFS characteristics which allow QFile/QDir to pretend
it is?

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Alan Alpert