Creating FileRef object from QString

[Plasty Grove]

Thanks so much Michael. That's exactly what was needed, straight ASCII
conversion.

This is what works:

QString qstr = "/home/mydir/music/song.mp3";
TagLib::FileRef tagFile(qstr.toAscii());

Apologies, I didn't take note of the toAscii() function.

Regards,
Abhiram.


On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Michael Pyne <mpyne at purinchu.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 05 December 2009 15:25:13 Plasty Grove wrote:
> > That makes sense, but even the following doesn't work:
> >
> > QString qstr = "/home/mydir/music/song.mp3";
> > QByteArray qbArray = qstr.toLocal8Bit();
> > const char* str = qbArray.constData();
> > TagLib::FileRef tagFile(str);
> >
> > In this case, I've got a local object which stores the value returned by
> > toLocal8Bit() and which is in scope when I'm using str. Does qbArray get
> > destroyed whenever constData() is called on it? When I'm debugging, I can
> > still see str holding a value when it goes to the next step.
>
> Perhaps an encoding issue if you don't use straight US-ASCII for your file
> names? In that case if "local8Bit" is not the encoding Taglib is expecting
> you'll get weirdness.
>
> The KDE JuK music manager uses taglib and has TString/QString conversion
> code
> (and I'm sure Amarok has the same thing) if you want to see how those
> projects
> do it.
>
> If it's not encoding I'm not sure what to try other than stepping through
> FileRef in the debugger to see where the logic goes astray.
>
> Regards,
>  - Michael Pyne
>
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