Save greyed out with Mac build

Stephen King st.king42 at ntlworld.com
Tue Apr 2 12:30:08 EDT 2013


Hi Jacqueline

Sounds promising, I'll give it a go

Cheers
Steve

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> Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:44:52 -0500
> From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Save greyed out with Mac build
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> On 4/1/13 1:35 PM, Stephen King wrote:
>> 
>> The sources identical between windows and OSX builds. The windows one
>> works fine, the OSX one won't save.
> 
> It's probably the "with filter" part of the "ask file" command. Filters 
> are only functional on Windows (see the dictionary entry for "ask file".)
> 
> Instead, try the newer "ask file with type" command:
> 
> ask file  "Save Dive file as:" with the DefaultFolder with type "SAC 
> File|SAC|????"
> 
> The question marks will allow any file type on Mac, though OS X no 
> longer uses file types.
> 
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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