QML: aliases to children properties

Question

I created dialog and trying to add some aliases to change it title and text:

import QtQuick 2.0
import Ubuntu.Components 0.1
import Ubuntu.Components.Popups 0.1

Item {
    signal confirmed;
    signal canceled;

    property alias title: dialog.title
    property alias text: dialog.text

    signal show(variant caller);

    Component {
         id: dialogComponent

         Dialog {
             id: dialog
             title: "Exit Game"
             text: "Are you sure that you want to exit?"

             Button {
                 text: "cancel"
                 onClicked:
                 {
                     canceled();
                     PopupUtils.close(dialog);
                 }
             }

             Button {
                 text: "confirm"
                 color: "orange"
                 onClicked:
                 {
                     confirmed();
                     PopupUtils.close(dialog);
                 }
             }
         }
    }

    onShow:
    {
        PopupUtils.open(dialogComponent, caller)
    }
}

But I has problem:

qrc:/ConfirmationDialog.qml:8:23: Invalid alias reference. Unable to find id "dialog"

So, how to create this aliases? Why Item don't see it? What is the best way to change this properties?

Best regards, Nick

Answer 1

Dialog object won't be available until u have instantiated it, since it's inside a component.

You can refer it's id, if it is not in the component.

Answer 2

That's because of the Component QML element. Simply make the Dialog a top-level item in your .qml file and treat that as a component for dynamic instantiations.