[Qt-interest] QFileDialog and UNIX device nodes

[Konrad Rosenbaum]

On Wednesday 21 July 2010, Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
> As part of the connection
> process, the user is presented with a QFIleDialog to select the serial
> port that the device is connected to.  We are currently using a filter
> of "*".  Is there a smarter way to do this on Linux/UNIX/OS X? 

On most Unixes serial devices will match tty*.

On Linux for example ttyS* are the normal serial ports, ttyACM* are USB 
attached serial devices (eg. UMTS modems).

So if you want to stick with QFileDialog use tty* as filter (I haven't 
tested whether that is even possible) and allow the user to use * instead. 
Otherwise you'll have to implement your own dialog.



	Konrad
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