Ken, Thank you for the reply and confirmation, definitely appreciated.
Your 'workaround' is pretty much how I had set up the save routine and I was pretty confident that it was foolproof enough to avoid saving a file with the wrong/no extension, or worse, overwriting a file with the wrong extension, but it seems some users now expect even simple apps to be as polished as the likes of Adobe products. I guess my simple app will have to disappoint a few while I work on a new Save Dialogue - could be a useful resource for the future too. Paul P.S. A big Thank You for putting up all the useful info on your site too. On 1 Feb 2012, at 19:00, Ken Ray wrote: >> The problem here is that, as far as I know LiveCode can only react to the >> Save or Cancel button being pressed within the dialogue box, so my question >> for the list is: >> >> Does anybody know of a way to achieve an 'intelligent' save dialogue without >> building a new one from scratch? or has anybody built one that they are >> willing to share? > > Well you can't "hack" into the OS-provided Save dialog, so it's either build > a replacement one from scratch, or use a workaround, which is basically: > > - Bring up a save dialog > - Check for an extension > - If there isn't one, add one > - If it's incorrect, alert the user > - If you had to add or correct the extension, check for an existing file with > that name > - If there is one, display a dialog asking if they want to replace > (hopefully mimicking the host OS as best as you can) > - Save or Cancel (based on user choice). > > Ken Ray > Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. > Email: k...@sonsothunder.com > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
