Saving and opening

[Klaus Major]

Hi Michael,

> I am building a word program.how do I put a save and open function in 
> it?
> Please help

in what format would you like to save?

To preserve formatting i would recommend HTML or RTF...


OK, you have a field 1 and you want to save its contents to a file on 
disk:
...
ask file "Your promt here :-)..."
if the result <> "cancel" then
   ## 1. save as HTML
   put the htmltext of fld 1 into url("file:" & it & ".html")

   ## or 2. save as RTF
  ##  put the rtftext of fld 1 into url("file:" & it & ".rtf")
end if
...


To get a file into your field do this:

answer file "Select a file or *#&&0%..." with filter "*.html"
## WINDOWS ONLY, will only show files with that suffix
## or use: with filter "*rtf"
## will only show RTF-files...
if the result <> "cancel" then
   ## 1. open HTML
   set the htmltext of fld 1 to url("file:" & it)

   ## or 2. open RTF
  ##  set the rtftext of fld 1 to url("file:" & it)
end if


Hope that helps...

>> From Michael Miner

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
www.major-k.de