MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Using Calibre as a client for another Calibre instance?

kovidgoyal · 06-29-2010, 09:47 AM

The Qt version hasn't changed between 0.6.55 and 0.7.x. What has changed (I think) is that earlier calibre was not using QUrl.fromLocalFile it was directly passing a filename to QDesktopServices. While this used to work for UNC paths, it broke in several other more common cases, so I switched it to QUrl.fromLocalFile

If you can figure out the correct way to pass UNC filenames to QUrl I'll be happy to make the change.

You can test by doing

Code:

calibre-debug -c "from PyQt4.Qt import *; app = QApplication([]); f = r'\\server\whatever'; url = QUrl.fromLocalFile(f); QDesptopServices.open(url)"

06-29-2010, 09:47 AM	#27
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,450 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The Qt version hasn't changed between 0.6.55 and 0.7.x. What has changed (I think) is that earlier calibre was not using QUrl.fromLocalFile it was directly passing a filename to QDesktopServices. While this used to work for UNC paths, it broke in several other more common cases, so I switched it to QUrl.fromLocalFile If you can figure out the correct way to pass UNC filenames to QUrl I'll be happy to make the change. You can test by doing Code: calibre-debug -c "from PyQt4.Qt import *; app = QApplication([]); f = r'\\server\whatever'; url = QUrl.fromLocalFile(f); QDesptopServices.open(url)"