Obsolete Members for QFileOpenEvent

The following members of class QFileOpenEvent are deprecated. They are provided to keep old source code working. We strongly advise against using them in new code.

Public Functions

(deprecated in 6.6) bool openFile(QFile &file, QIODeviceBase::OpenMode flags) const

Member Function Documentation

[deprecated in 6.6] bool QFileOpenEvent::openFile(QFile &file, QIODeviceBase::OpenMode flags) const

This function is deprecated since 6.6. We strongly advise against using it in new code.

interpret the string returned by file()

Opens a QFile on the file referenced by this event in the mode specified by flags. Returns true if successful; otherwise returns false.

This is necessary as some files cannot be opened by name, but require specific information stored in this event.