How do you program a save dialog when no changes in the file has been made?

[charles61]

Björnke,

Thanks! This gives me a starting point on how to do this.

Charles Szasz
cszasz at mac.com




On Nov 7, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Björnke von Gierke [via Runtime Revolution] wrote:

> you need to set a flag, for example, if this would be in a text editor, i'd set a "dirty" flag on  rawkeydown of the main text entry field, and then when the stack  (window) is closed i'd check for that flag: 
> 
> --in the field 
> on rawkeydown theKey 
>   set the dirty of me to true 
>   pass rawkeydown 
> end rawkeydown 
> 
> --in the stack 
> on openstack 
>   set the dirty of field "text" to false 
> end openstack 
> 
> on closestackrequest 
>   if the dirty of field "text" then 
>     -- do the save dialog here 
>   else 
>     pass closestackrequest 
>   end if 
> end closestackrequest 
> 
> note: this is a simplified example, and does not cover all real life possibilities 
> 
> On 7 Nov 2010, at 23:46, charles61 wrote: 
> 
> > 
> > I have code in my save menu that brings up a dialog for saving a file with 
> > "Don't Save", "Cancel" and "Save". After the user saves the file the first 
> > time, the code will automatically insert the name of the file into the 
> > dialog above when the user wants to save it again or get ready to open a new 
> > file. Any time the user gets ready to close the file or open a new file the 
> > dialog above (Don't Save, Cancel and Save) appears. How do I code it so that 
> > when the user does NOT make a change to the file (preserving the save file) 
> > the dialog of Don't Save, Cancel and Save will not appear and the file will 
> > go ahead close or a new file dialog will appear?
> 
> 
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