QFileDialog setFileMode blues

[Rincewind]

On Jul 29, 12:45 pm, Phil Thompson <p... at riverbankcomputing.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:35:42 -0700 (PDT), Rincewind <spoo... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Heya,
>
> > I am fairly new to Python and even newer to Qt.
> > The problem is opening a Qt file dialog to select folders only.
> > QFileDialog has a nice and dandy setFileMode() function just for that.
> > The only trouble is that I cannot make it work.
> > Last thing I've tried was something like this:
>
> >         self.fd = QtGui.QFileDialog()
> >         self.fd.setFileMode(self.fd.FileMode(4))
> >         filename = self.fd.getOpenFileName()
>
> > ..but it was fruitless.
>
> > Any help? Tons of internets in return!
>
> QFileDialog.getOpenFileName() is a static method that creates its own
> QFileDialog internally. It's not using the one you have created and
> configured.
>
> Phil

You are awesome, thanks!