[Qt-interest] QFileDialog and UNIX device nodes

[Jeffery MacEachern]

Thanks for the suggestion - I think that will work fine.
 - Jeffery MacEachern



On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 00:07, Konrad Rosenbaum <konrad at silmor.de> wrote:
> 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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