Move filterForQmakeFileDialog to a place where it can be reused

Change-Id: Ie53e611b0f042b025bddb5432d8690e5bcced390
Reviewed-by: Daniel Teske <daniel.teske@theqtcompany.com>

2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libs/utils/buildablehelperlibrary.cpp b/src/libs/utils/buildablehelperlibrary.cpp
index 0b1332d4e7..b8389ff9b1 100644
--- a/src/libs/utils/buildablehelperlibrary.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/utils/buildablehelperlibrary.cpp
@@ -141,6 +141,27 @@ QString BuildableHelperLibrary::qtVersionForQMake(const QString &qmakePath)
     return QString();
 }
 
+QString BuildableHelperLibrary::filterForQmakeFileDialog()
+{
+    QString filter = QLatin1String("qmake (");
+    const QStringList commands = possibleQMakeCommands();
+    for (int i = 0; i < commands.size(); ++i) {
+        if (i)
+            filter += QLatin1Char(' ');
+        if (HostOsInfo::isMacHost())
+            // work around QTBUG-7739 that prohibits filters that don't start with *
+            filter += QLatin1Char('*');
+        filter += commands.at(i);
+        if (HostOsInfo::isAnyUnixHost() && !HostOsInfo::isMacHost())
+            // kde bug, we need at least one wildcard character
+            // see QTCREATORBUG-7771
+            filter += QLatin1Char('*');
+    }
+    filter += QLatin1Char(')');
+    return filter;
+}
+
+
 QStringList BuildableHelperLibrary::possibleQMakeCommands()
 {
     // On Windows it is always "qmake.exe"
diff --git a/src/libs/utils/buildablehelperlibrary.h b/src/libs/utils/buildablehelperlibrary.h
index d64f72c209..1b72030d50 100644
--- a/src/libs/utils/buildablehelperlibrary.h
+++ b/src/libs/utils/buildablehelperlibrary.h
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ public:
     static QString qtVersionForQMake(const QString &qmakePath);
     // returns something like qmake4, qmake, qmake-qt4 or whatever distributions have chosen (used by QtVersion)
     static QStringList possibleQMakeCommands();
+    static QString filterForQmakeFileDialog();
 
     static QString byInstallDataHelper(const QString &sourcePath,
                                        const QStringList &sourceFileNames,