FileDialog does not open() to value of folder property

[Urthas]

Excerpt from AddEditEmployerView.qml...

FileDialog {
        id: fileDialog
 
        title: qsTr("Please choose a file")
        folder: employersController.picturesLocation()
        selectExisting: true
 
        onAccepted: {
            image.source = fileDialog.fileUrl
            close()
        }
        onRejected: close()
    }

FileDialog {
        id: fileDialog

        title: qsTr("Please choose a file")
        folder: employersController.picturesLocation()
        selectExisting: true

        onAccepted: {
            image.source = fileDialog.fileUrl
            close()
        }
        onRejected: close()
    }

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...and from EmployersController.h:

Q_INVOKABLE QUrl picturesLocation() {
        QUrl url("file:///" + QStandardPaths::standardLocations(QStandardPaths::PicturesLocation).at(0));
        if (url.isEmpty())
            qDebug() << "Empty url!";
        else if (!url.isValid())
            qDebug() << "Invalid url!";
        else
            qDebug() << url;
        return url;
    }

Q_INVOKABLE QUrl picturesLocation() {
        QUrl url("file:///" + QStandardPaths::standardLocations(QStandardPaths::PicturesLocation).at(0));
        if (url.isEmpty())
            qDebug() << "Empty url!";
        else if (!url.isValid())
            qDebug() << "Invalid url!";
        else
            qDebug() << url;
        return url;
    }

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Fairly straight-forward, right? This prints

QUrl( "file:///C:/Users/MyAccount/Pictures" )

but then I see the following:

QWindowsNativeFileDialogBase::shellItem: SHCreateItemFromParsingName(/C:/Users/My Account/Pictures)) failed ()

As a point of interest, I am in fact opening to the Pictures Location for some reason, but if I change the location type to, for example, Documents Location and rebuild, the dialog continues to open to Pictures Location...and the error message persists but with the documents url instead. This leads me to believe that it is something to do with the url?

The documentation of QML's url type says that,

"When integrating with C++, note that any QUrl value passed into QML from C++ is automatically converted into a url value, and vice-versa."

but I'm not sure where I'm going wrong.

Any insight is appreciated. Thanks!

[Urthas]

Hmm the code seems to have disappeared and I can't edit or delete the original post.

Excerpt from AddEditEmployerView.qml:

folder: employersController.picturesLocation()

folder: employersController.picturesLocation()

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Excerpt from EmployersController.h:

#include <QDebug>
#include <QStandardPaths>
#include <QUrl>
 
Q_INVOKABLE QUrl picturesLocation() {
        QUrl url("file:///" + QStandardPaths::standardLocations(QStandardPaths::PicturesLocation).at(0));
        if (url.isEmpty())
            qDebug() << "Empty url!";
        else if (!url.isValid())
            qDebug() << "Invalid url!";
        else
            qDebug() << url;
        return url;
    }

#include <QDebug>
#include <QStandardPaths>
#include <QUrl>

Q_INVOKABLE QUrl picturesLocation() {
        QUrl url("file:///" + QStandardPaths::standardLocations(QStandardPaths::PicturesLocation).at(0));
        if (url.isEmpty())
            qDebug() << "Empty url!";
        else if (!url.isValid())
            qDebug() << "Invalid url!";
        else
            qDebug() << url;
        return url;
    }

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