[Qt-interest] How to use QFileDialog to save files?

[Andre Somers]

Op 31-5-2010 1:47, Rui Maciel schreef:
> I've used QFileDialog to select a file to write.  Meanwhile, although it works great I haven't found
> a way to overwrite the dialog's labels so that they display text related to saving a file.
>
> This is how I've been using QFileDialog to save files
> <code>
>          QFileDialog dialog(this);
>          QStringList sl;
>
>          // setup the file dialog
>          dialog.setFileMode(QFileDialog::AnyFile);
>          dialog.setNameFilter(tr("JSON document (*.json)"));
>          dialog.setDefaultSuffix(".json");
>          if(dialog.exec() == QDialog::Rejected)
>          {
>                  // user cancelled
>                  return;
>          }
>          sl = dialog.selectedFiles();
>
>          // snip boring file IO operations
> </code>
>
> So, how do you use QFileDialog to save files?
>
>
>    
First of all, QFileDialog is not going to actually save the file for 
you, it just returns a file name (including path) to use for that.

Did you see QFileDialog::acceptMode and ::setAcceptMode? Or did you take 
a look at the static QFileDialog::getSaveFileName method?

André