[Qt-interest] QCompleter with QDirModel on OS X can not reach External Disk Drives?

[Mike Jackson]

On 2009-08-21 10:25:05 -0400, Mike Jackson <imikejackson at gmail.com> said:

> I have the following bit of code:
> 
> QCompleter *completer = new QCompleter(this);
> QDirModel* model = new QDirModel(completer);
> QStringList nameFilters;
> nameFilters << "*.mxa" << "*.h5" << "*.hdf5";
> model->setNameFilters(nameFilters);
> model->setFilter(QDir::AllDirs | QDir::Drives | QDir::NoDotAndDotDot | 
> QDir::System);
> completer->setModel(model);
> mxaFile->setCompleter(completer);
> // mxaFile is a QLineEdit
> 
> The problem is that none of my External disk drives are listed. They 
> are mounted in /Volumes on OS X. The /Volumes isn't even listed as a 
> possible completion either.
> 
> Is there a way to have QDirModel list the all the mounted Disk Drives on OS X?
> 
> Thanks
> _________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio

Just to follow up a bit. I had to add "QDir::Hidden" to the list of 
filters to be able to see the mounted drives. Except now I see _all_ 
the hidden directories. Probably have to subclass QDirModel to 
customize it to my liking.

-- 
Mike