[Qt-interest] Selecting multiple files on different locations using QFileDialog

[Scott Aron Bloom]

The "Advanced open" from VLC is pretty much exactly what Im talking
about..

There is a list of the files, and a "add..." button to open up the file
dialog

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: hi [mailto:hiralsmaillist at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 3:00 AM
To: Scott Aron Bloom
Cc: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Selecting multiple files on different
locations using QFileDialog

Hi Scott,

Do you mean 'Browse..." kind of button?
Which is something similar to QFileDialog::getOpenFileNames() in
'standarddialogs' qt example.

Thank you.
-Hiral

On 12/31/10, Scott Aron Bloom <Scott.Bloom at onshorecs.com> wrote:
> Most applications that allow for multiple files to be selected from
multiple
> locations, allow the user to activate the dialog via pushbutton (or
whatever
> method they have) multiple times...  Then they can re-order the files
as
> necessary...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt.nokia.com
> [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt.nokia.com] On
> Behalf Of hi
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:45 PM
> To: Jeffery MacEachern
> Cc: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Selecting multiple files on different
locations
> using QFileDialog
>
> Hi Jeffery,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I observed the same behavior (i.e. user can not select multiple files
> from different location) with Visual Studio - 2008 (File -> Open ->
> File...).
>
> So it seems -- it is by-design.
> BTW:any idea on how application can handle this case?
>
> Thank you.
> -Hiral
>
> On 12/31/10, Jeffery MacEachern <j.maceachern at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 21:54, hi <hiralsmaillist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using QFileDialog::getOpenFileNames() to get multiple input
files
>>> in one of my appplication.
>>> I observed that "we can not select multiple files if they reside in
>>> different location", but  user can select multiple input file if
they
>>> reside in current directory.
>>>
>>> Is it bug in QFileDialog or am I missing any thing?
>>> Any idea?
>>
>> There isn't really any sensible way to select files in different
>> directories using the QFileDialog UI, so it's not a bug - just a
>> limitation of the design.  ...That is, unless I'm missing something
>> from your question?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  - Jeffery MacEachern
>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> -Hiral
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