Qt Execute external program

Question

I want to start an external program out of my QT-Programm. The only working solution was:

system(\"start explorer.exe\");

But it is only wo

Answer 1

Just use QProcess::startDetached; it's static and you don't need to worry about waiting for it to finish or allocating things on the heap or anything like that:

QProcess::startDetached(QDir::homepath + "/file.exe");

It's the detached counterpart to QProcess::execute.