Disable opening directory after exporting as PDF

[AlfredoRamos]

Hi,

Thanks for this application, I find it very useful.

I would like to disable the option to open the container directory automatically after exporting the note as PDF.

I usually have that directory opened already, so I don't really need the application to open it again.

Besides, if I make a little modification and export again, I need to close it again and It can be a little annoying, even if not done so often.

Expected behaviour

Have an option to disable that behavior.

Actual behaviour

I looked at all the settings options. It seems that it can't be turned off.

https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/b9ae6cb8097a9cc05870a7b83d45c51bdd211285/src/mainwindow.cpp#L7174 https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/b9ae6cb8097a9cc05870a7b83d45c51bdd211285/src/utils/misc.cpp#L137-L179

Steps to reproduce

• Export a note as PDF, the destination folder will open up
• Make a small modification of the note (optional)
• Export the note again as PDF, the destination folder will open up, again

Output from the debug section in the settings dialog

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Relevant log output in the Log panel

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[pbek]

Thank you for your kind words and your suggestion. Any clever idea on how to achieve that (beside adding one more setting to the setting dialog)?

[AlfredoRamos]

Two options come to my mind, besides a new setting:

1. Use QProcess::processId() or QProcess::state() to check that it is opened only once, though I don't know if that would work for Windows too since it doesn't seems to be using QProcess
2. A check box somewhere in the export dialog to disable opening the directory. That dialog which is always opened anyways so a new setting would not be needed.

Example


It has been a while since I used Qt, I'll experiment a little bit.

[pbek]

Thank you for you input.

1) Use QProcess::processId() or QProcess::state() to check that it is opened only once, though I don't know if that would work for Windows too since it doesn't seems to be using QProcess

It would be hard to implement that for every (common?) file browser and operating system...

2) A check box somewhere in the export dialog to disable opening the directory. That dialog which is always opened anyways so a new setting would not be needed.

Those dialogs are the operating system's print dialogs. :grin: I can't modify them.