QSettings - where is the location of the ini file?

Question

I'm using QSettings to store some data as ini file in Windows. I want to see the ini file, but I don't know what is the location of the ini file.

This is my code:

QSettings *set = new QSettings(QSettings::IniFormat, QSettings::UserScope, "bbb", "aaa"); set->setValue("size", size()); set->setValue("pos", pos()); 

Where do I have to look? Or may be I miss the code which write it to the file? When does the QSettings write its values?

Answer 1

To print out the exact location of your settings file use method fileName method of QSettings class.

QSettings settings("folderName", "fileName"); qDebug() << settings.fileName(); 

Console output looks then like:

/home/user/.config/folderName/fileName.conf 

Answer 2

I think you'll find everything you're looking for here : http://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.7/qsettings.html

It's plateform specific, see under :

Platform-Specific Notes Locations Where Application Settings Are Stored

You can store Settings in files as well :

QSettings settings("/home/petra/misc/myapp.ini",                 QSettings::IniFormat);