Save greyed out with Mac build

[Stephen King]

Hi Jacqueline

Just to let you know you were absolutely right - the ask with type fixed it. I have also changed the answer dialogue too.

Many thanks
Steve


On 2 Apr 2013, at 17:30, Stephen King <st.king42 at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Hi Jacqueline
> 
> Sounds promising, I'll give it a go
> 
> Cheers
> Steve
> 
>> 
>> Message: 3
>> 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
>> Message-ID: <5159E3B4.7090803 at hyperactivesw.com>
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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.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> 
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