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

[hi]

Thank you all for your suggetions/comments.

Thank you.
-Hiral

On 12/31/10, Scott Aron Bloom <Scott.Bloom at onshorecs.com> wrote:
> 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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