[Qt-interest] QDir::tempPath() printing junk on windows

[Willy P]

Gary,
Thanks, but I'm passing this path to ffmpeg via QProcess::execute and
ffmpeg is puking.  How can I make it a "normal" path?

Thanks,
Willy



On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Gary Coulbourne
<gcoulbourne at mediaguide.com> wrote:
> Willy P wrote:
>> Hey,
>> When I
>> qDebug() << QDir::tempPath()
>> I get this:
>>
>> "C:/DOCUME~1/username/LOCALS~1/Temp/
>>
>> What's up w/ the ~1's?  How am I supposed to make a usable path out of this?
>
> Windows has two filename formats, short and long.  Short filenames
> contain tildes and are an artifact of the creation of VFAT files.  If
> you do a dir of "C:\DOCUME~1\username" you'll see the user's files.
> That's a perfectly valid path to Windows.  (IIRC, if there were a second
> directory with the same first few letters, it would be ~2).
>
> Peace,
> Gary
>