Re: A save question in an app

2011-06-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
One too many end if's there. Prolly a typo. Bob On Jun 29, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Charles Szasz wrote: > I have the following code in my save handler: > > > if there is not a folder tNewFolder then > create folder tNewFolder >end if > >ask file "Save file as

Re: A save question in an app

2011-06-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Charles Szasz wrote: When an user saves a file, the user is presented with a file dialog that has "Untitled.datatxt" hilited in the Save As dialog. Is there anyway that only Untitled can be hilited so that the user enters a name for the file but the .datatxt extension is automatically saved to t

Re: A save question in an app

2011-06-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Charles, No. You can't do that. Not even with Applescript. Currently, you'd need an external to do that. Usually, I check whether the user deleted the file extension. If yes, then I add the file extension again and check to see if the file already exists. If the files exists, I show the user a

A save question in an app

2011-06-29 Thread Charles Szasz
I have the following code in my save handler: if there is not a folder tNewFolder then create folder tNewFolder end if ask file "Save file as: " with (tNewFolder & "/Untitled.datatxt") put it into tSaveFile if tSaveFile i