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barrygp

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Thursday, July 23rd 2009, 9:25pm

Using QFileDialog to have user specify sub directory but not modify filename.

Is there a way to have QFileDialog let the user specify a subdir to save a file but have the filename constant so that the user can not change it? Esseentially, I want the application to pick a filename based on entered data, then have the user specify a subdir under a base directory to save the file (displaying the filename being saved).

Thanks very much,

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Friday, July 24th 2009, 3:10pm

RE:Using QFileDialog to have user specify sub directory but not modify filename.

Hi,

I thing you may use getExistingDirectory member function to get the directory to which the file to be saved .

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QString dirName = QFileDialog::getExistingDirectory( this , tr("Select directory") , tr("/home/krd"), QFileDialog::ShowDirsOnly );


thanks,
krd

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Wednesday, July 29th 2009, 3:37pm

Thanks.. However, I think this will still allow a traversal up the tree. I want to keep the user from selecting above a base directory as well. thanks for the reply.

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Wednesday, July 29th 2009, 4:37pm

I'm pretty sure you'll have to roll your own filedialog for that.
I don't think that the major supported operating systems have a native filedialog which supports that.