COMMON DIALOO BOXES

[Mathewson]

Not quite that green!  I have written a text-editor (High
Tech!!!) which can save and retrieve text documents: what I
need is a window that opens and allows the user to navigate
with mouse clicks to where they want to open/save a file in
their directory structure.

Richmond

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:44:59 +0100
 Klaus Major <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:
> Hi Richmond,
> 
> >Wow, I'm as green as a cabbage!
> 
> Greenhorn ;-)
> 
> >There I am sitting in a Visual Basic class
> 
> What a pity :-(
> 
> >learning about OPEN/SAVE dialog boxes and suddenly I
> >realise I haven't a clue how to implement them in
> >RR................
> >
> >Any help ..... ???
> 
> Yo... :-)
> 
> Open:
> 
> on xxx
>   answer file "Is there any beer left?" ## with filter
> ... see the dox 
> ->"filter"
>   if the result = "cancel" then exit xxx
>   ## do something with "it" = the filename
> end xxx
> 
> Save:
> 
> on yyy
>   ask file "Where to store the remaining beer (if any)?:"
>    if the result = "cancel" then exit yyy
>   put fld "data to store" into url("file:" & it)
>   ## etc...
> end yyy
> 
> Hpe that helps...
> 
> >Richmond Mathewson
> 
> Best from germanski
> 
> Klaus Major
> klaus at major-k.de
> www.major-k.de
> 
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