[Qgis-user] RE: newbie QGIS, pyQT and python question

[karsten vennemann]

Thanks I used 
filename = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(None, 'Open File', '.')

And it works.

Karsten

Terra GIS LTD
www.terragis.net


> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 17:15
> To: 'karsten vennemann'
> Subject: QGIS - Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia 

> Hi Karsten
> I think these questions would be better suited for the 
> qgis-developer mailing-list.
> Looking at pyqt's documentation[1], it seems the 
> getOpenfileName method's, first argument is the parent 
> widget, and must be a QWidget (or one of its subclasses) or None.
> So you have some options:
> 1 - make this dialog a child of your main plugin window 
> (which is not present on the code snippet in your message).
> 2 - make this dialog a child of the main qgis window:
> 
> # code example
> QgisMainWindow = qgis.utils.iface.mainWindow() filename = 
> QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(QgisMainWindow, 'Open File', '.')
> 
> 3 - leave the 'parent' argument as None:
> 
> # code example
> filename = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(None, 'Open File', '.')
> 
> 
> I think either option should work. Good luck with your plugin ;)
> 
> [1] - 
> http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qfi
> ledialog.html 
> <http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qf
> iledialog.html>