[Qt-interest] icons for files

[Puneet Bisht]

thanks  Tanguy Krotoff,

the code really works .


> Then you can create a temporary file on the local harddrive with the
> same extension as the remote file.
> This way QFileIconProvider will give you the right icon.
>
> here some code
>
>
> QIcon fileExtensionIcon(const QString & extension) const {
> 	static QFileIconProvider iconProvider;
>
> 	QIcon icon;
>
> 	QTemporaryFile tmpFile(QDir::tempPath() + QDir::separator() +
> QCoreApplication::applicationName() + "_XXXXXX." + extension);
> 	tmpFile.setAutoRemove(false);
>
> 	if (tmpFile.open()) {
> 		QString fileName = tmpFile.fileName();
> 		tmpFile.write(QByteArray());
> 		tmpFile.close();
>
> 		icon = iconProvider.icon(QFileInfo(fileName));
>
> 		tmpFile.remove();
> 	} else {
> 		qCritical() << __FUNCTION__ << "Error: couldn't write temporary
> file:" << tmpFile.fileName();
> 	}
>
> 	return icon;
> }
>
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Puneet Bisht <pbisht at nivio.com> wrote:
>> thanks for your reply
>>
>> i have already tried QFileIconProvider , but the problem is ,it requires
>> a
>> QFileInfo object and the file i want to show is on the server ,so i am
>> confused how to get the QFileInfo object for that file .
>>
>> is there any other way
>>
>>
>>> QFileIconProvider is probably what you are looking for:
>>> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qfileiconprovider.html
>>>
>>> Jens
>>>
>>>
>>> "Puneet Bisht" <pbisht at nivio.com> wrote in message
>>> news:6977.192.168.5.2.1241097508.squirrel at webmail.nivio.com...
>>>> hi all,
>>>>
>>>> i m working on a ftp application.
>>>> i m showing files on a server using qlistwidget, now i want to set
>>>> icons
>>>> for files.
>>>> can anybody tell me how can i set system provided icons for a file
>>>> according to its extension e,g pdf,mp3 ...
>>>>
>>>> here i m using
>>>> item->setIcon(style()->standardIcon(QStyle::SP_DirIcon,0,this)); for
>>>> directories and
>>>> item->setIcon(style()->standardIcon(QStyle::SP_FileIcon,0,this)); for
>>>> file
>>>>
>>>> but i want to show different icons according to file extension.
>>>>
>>>> thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>> puneet
>>>
>>>
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