$HOME/.config
%APPDATA%
$HOME/.config
It can be set using http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qsettings.html#setPath, but it seems as I am not able to retrieve it.
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qlibraryinfo.html#location QLibraryInfo::LibrariesPath
returns the system wide settings dir, which is not what I want.
Any ideas, or do I have to code it separately for each platform?
€: I want to create a sub directory, and store files into it. (You may punish me if this is a bad idea)
This might not answer your question directly: if you want to store per-user persistent data, shouldn't you use QDesktopServices::storageLocation(QDesktopServices::DataLocation) instead?
This is a nasty workaround. First you create QSettings
, then get its location.
QSettings cfg(QSettings::IniFormat, QSettings::UserScope,
"organization", "application");
QString config_dir = QFileInfo(cfg.fileName()).absolutePath() + "/";
Credits go to the Qt Centre forum.
QSettings
stores the default config in the user AppData directory. See documentation for QSettings
. Also this code instructs to store the config in the Ini file format.