Class: QgsFileWidget

class qgis.gui.QgsFileWidget(parent: QWidget = None)

Bases: PyQt5.QtWidgets.QWidget

QgsFileWidget creates a widget for selecting a file or a folder.

The QgsFileWidget class creates a widget for selecting a file or a folder.

Parameters

parent

Absolute = 0
GetDirectory = 1
GetFile = 0
GetMultipleFiles = 2
RelativeDefaultPath = 2
RelativeProject = 1
class RelativeStorage

Bases: int

SaveFile = 3
class StorageMode

Bases: int

actionEvent()
changeEvent()
childEvent()
closeEvent()
confirmOverwrite(self) → bool

Returns whether a confirmation will be shown when overwriting an existing file

Return type

bool

connectNotify()
contextMenuEvent()
create()
customEvent()
defaultRoot(self) → str

returns the default root path

Return type

str

destroy()
dialogTitle(self) → str

returns the open file dialog title

Return type

str

disconnectNotify()
dragEnterEvent()
dragLeaveEvent()
dragMoveEvent()
dropEvent()
enterEvent()
event()
fileChanged

emitted as soon as the current file or directory is changed [signal]

filePath(self) → str

Returns the current file path(s) when multiple files are selected, they are quoted and separated by a single space (for example: ‘”/path/foo” “path/bar”’)

See also

splitFilePaths()

Return type

str

fileWidgetButtonVisible(self) → bool

determines if the tool button is shown

Return type

bool

filter(self) → str

returns the filters used for QDialog.getOpenFileName

Return type

str

focusInEvent()
focusNextChild()
focusNextPrevChild()
focusOutEvent()
focusPreviousChild()
fullUrl(self) → bool

returns if the links shows the full path or not

Return type

bool

hideEvent()
initPainter()
inputMethodEvent()
isSignalConnected()
keyPressEvent()
keyReleaseEvent()
leaveEvent()
lineEdit(self) → QgsFilterLineEdit

Returns a pointer to the widget’s line edit, which can be used to customize the appearance and behavior of the line edit portion of the widget.

New in version 3.0.

Return type

QgsFilterLineEdit

metric()
mouseDoubleClickEvent()
mouseMoveEvent()
mousePressEvent()
mouseReleaseEvent()
moveEvent()
nativeEvent()
paintEvent()
receivers()
relativeStorage(self) → QgsFileWidget.RelativeStorage

returns if the relative path is with respect to the project path or the default path

Return type

QgsFileWidget.RelativeStorage

resizeEvent()
selectedFilter(self) → str

Returns the selected filter from the last opened file dialog.

Return type

str

sender()
senderSignalIndex()
setConfirmOverwrite(self, confirmOverwrite: bool)

Sets whether a confirmation to overwrite an existing file will appear. By default, a confirmation will appear.

Parameters

confirmOverwrite (bool) – If set to true, an overwrite confirmation will be shown

setDefaultRoot(self, defaultRoot: str)

determines the default root path used as the first shown location when picking a file and used if the RelativeStorage is RelativeDefaultPath

Parameters

defaultRoot (str) –

setDialogTitle(self, title: str)

setDialogTitle defines the open file dialog title

Note

if not defined, the title is “Select a file” or “Select a directory” or “Select one or more files” depending on the configuration.

Parameters

title (str) –

setFilePath(self, path: str)

Sets the file path

Parameters

path (str) –

setFileWidgetButtonVisible(self, visible: bool)

determines if the tool button is shown

Parameters

visible (bool) –

setFilter(self, filter: str)

setFilter sets the filter used by the model to filters. The filter is used to specify the kind of files that should be shown.

Parameters

filter (str) – Only files that match the given filter are shown, it may be an empty string. If you want multiple filters, separate them with ‘;;’,

setFullUrl(self, fullUrl: bool)

determines if the links shows the full path or not

Parameters

fullUrl (bool) –

setReadOnly(self, readOnly: bool)

defines if the widget is readonly

Parameters

readOnly (bool) –

setRelativeStorage(self, relativeStorage: QgsFileWidget.RelativeStorage)

determines if the relative path is with respect to the project path or the default path

Parameters

relativeStorage (QgsFileWidget.RelativeStorage) –

setSelectedFilter(self, selectedFilter: str)

Sets the selected filter when the file dialog opens.

Parameters

selectedFilter (str) –

setStorageMode(self, storageMode: QgsFileWidget.StorageMode)

determines the storage mode (i.e. file or directory)

Parameters

storageMode (QgsFileWidget.StorageMode) –

determines if the file path will be shown as a link

Parameters

useLink (bool) –

sharedPainter()
showEvent()
splitFilePaths(path: str) → List[str]

Split the the quoted and space separated path and returns a QString list

See also

filePath()

Parameters

path (str) –

Return type

List[str]

storageMode(self) → QgsFileWidget.StorageMode

returns the storage mode (i.e. file or directory)

Return type

QgsFileWidget.StorageMode

tabletEvent()
timerEvent()
updateMicroFocus()

determines if the file path will be shown as a link

Return type

bool

wheelEvent()