[Interest] QSettings possible bug on Windows
Scott Aron Bloom
scott.bloom at onshorecs.com
Tue Oct 1 05:17:49 CEST 2013
Two things..
1) Try doing a foreach( const QString & child, reg.childKeys() ) and see, maybe there is a typo you are missing
2) Take a look at the Qt source code for qdesktopservices_win.cpp It uses SHGetSpecialFolder to find the directories you are looking for.
Scott
From: interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Alex Malyushytskyy
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 7:02 PM
To: interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] QSettings possible bug on Windows
Just want to add that key is found,
qDebug() << "child keys = " << reg.childKeys();
result in
child keys = ("Common Administrative Tools", "Common AppData", "Common Desktop", "Common Documents", "Common Programs", "Common Start Menu", "Common Startup", "Common Templates", "CommonMusic", "CommonPictures", "CommonVideo", "OEM Links", "Personal")
but value returned is empty string - different from visible in regedit
Alex
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Alex Malyushytskyy <alexmalvtk at gmail.com<mailto:alexmalvtk at gmail.com>> wrote:
I found a problem with QSettings when trying to read from registry.
I am using Qt 4.7.3 so I would appreciate if anybody can check with Qt 5 at least.
Problem:
QSettings fails to return specific key value (Common AppData) when read other keys at the same level just fine.
Key exists and verified with regedit.
Test case is below:
#include <QApplication>
#include <QSettings>
#include <QDebug>
void ddd2();
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
// execute test and return
QApplication a(argc, argv);
ddd2();
return 0;
}
void ddd2()
{
QSettings reg("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Folders",
QSettings::NativeFormat);
QString key;
QString val;
key = QString("Common AppData");
val = QString ( reg.value(key).toString());
qDebug() << "key: " << key << " value: " << val;
key = QString("Common Desktop");
val = QString ( reg.value(key).toString());
qDebug() << "key: " << key << " value: " << val;
key = QString("Common Documents");
val = QString ( reg.value(key).toString());
qDebug() << "key: " << key << " value: " << val;
}
Output:
key: "Common AppData" value: ""
key: "Common Desktop" value: "C:\Users\Public\Desktop"
key: "Common Documents" value: "C:\Users\Public\Documents"
Expected
* WinXP: "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data"
* WinV/7/8: "c:\ProgramData"
Regards,
Alex
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