FileDialog in QTQuick (QML): Save file under given name
qfiledialog, qml, qt, qt-quick, qtquick2
Solution
This blog post covers the whole problem and provides a possible solution: Advanced FileDialog in QML (Save file under given name) (RIP Kullo blog)
The repository implementing the solution is here: https://github.com/kullo/qml-file-dialog-demo
Problem
We're building a Qt Quick app, that must be able to save a file under a given name. In the FileDialog component you can only set a directory. This is not very user-friendly, since you don't want to type in a filename by hand every time you download a file. So far we tried different things FileDialog from QtQuick.Dialogs: filename cannot be set Native dialog via QPlatformFileDialogHelper (naughty private c++ hack): filename cannot be set on Linux (Gnome) Native dialog via static QFileDialog::getSaveFileName(): in Quick application there is no QWidget available for 'parent' QT dialog via QFileDialog instance: Modality doeas not work, since 'parent' is not set. In Quick application there is no QWidget available for setParent() call (Using C++ with QT 5.1 and QtQuick 2.1 incl. all desktop components)