Qt Reference Documentation

# Input/Output and Networking

These classes are used to handle input and output to and from external devices, processes, files etc. as well as manipulating files and directories.

QAbstractFileEngine | Abstraction for accessing the filesystem
QAbstractFileEngineHandler | Way to register custom file engines with your application
QBuffer | QIODevice interface for a QByteArray
QDataStream | Serialization of binary data to a QIODevice
QDir | Access to directory structures and their contents
QFile | Interface for reading from and writing to files
QFileInfo | System-independent file information
QFileSystemWatcher | Interface for monitoring files and directories for modifications
QIODevice | The base interface class of all I/O devices in Qt
QImageReader | Format independent interface for reading images from files or other devices
QImageWriter | Format independent interface for writing images to files or other devices
QProcess | Used to start external programs and to communicate with them
QProcessEnvironment | Holds the environment variables that can be passed to a program
QResource | Interface for reading directly from resources
QSettings | Persistent platform-independent application settings
QSocketNotifier | Support for monitoring activity on a file descriptor
QTemporaryFile | I/O device that operates on temporary files
QTextDocumentWriter | Format-independent interface for writing a QTextDocument to files or other devices
QTextStream | Convenient interface for reading and writing text
QUrl | Convenient interface for working with URLs
QUrlInfo | Stores information about URLs