How to show an app icon in a ListWidget

[sevdotcom]

Hi,

I am trying to display the icon of an app that I got from the RApaLsSession. I get the full file name and store it in QString. The file name looks something like this: Z:\resources\apps\browserng_aif.mif

Now when I try to set the icon on a QListWidgetItem I do not see the icon. Here is my code:

QListWidgetItem* item = new QListWidgetItem("Some Text");
item->setIcon(QIcon("Z:\resources\apps\browserng_aif.mif"));
ui.listWidget->addItem(item);

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[skumar_rao]

can you 1st try uploading the _aif.mif file to a widget .. if that is possible or not.

[danhicksbyron]

Use QFile to test whether the file is actually where you think it is.

[Fuzzbender]

I am fairly certain that Qt does not support mif-files as image sources.

To work around this, use a native method to load up the mif icon to a CFBsBitmap and then convert that to QIcon/QImage/QPixmap with the Qt APIs.

[rahulvala]

I am fairly certain that Qt does not support mif-files as image sources.

To work around this, use a native method to load up the mif icon to a CFBsBitmap and then convert that to QIcon/QImage/QPixmap with the Qt APIs.

This article may help you regarding adding Icon : http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...n_to_QComboBox

Best regards,

[jupaavola]

Qt doesn't support MIF files, you need AknIconUtils first to read CFbsBitmap from .MIF, then use QPixmap::fromSymbianCFbsBitmap to convert to QPixmap.

And the filename seems to be problem to. Qt uses unix style slashes "/" while Symbian uses Windows style "\". To use this filename, use QString::replace :

QString fn("z:\resources\apps\images.mif");
fn.replace("\","/");

And you have working filename now.

[danhicksbyron]

No, still not working. QString fn("z:\\resources\\apps\\images.mif"); might work, though.

(Generally, while "/" is preferred, Qt is "agnostic" with regard to "/" vs "\". But SQLite (and maybe some others) requires "\".)