Save file dialogs...

[Richard Gaskin]

Paul Dupuis wrote:

 > On 10/23/2017 4:23 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
 >> Trevor DeVore wrote:
 >>
 >> > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:32 AM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
 >> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
 >> >
 >> >> One option would be to leave the extension off when initially
 >> >> presented to the user. Then add the correct extension before
 >> >> saving if the user did not manually add one. It is probably a
 >> >> little more complicated than that though... unless the user has
 >> >> their OS set to display extensions, they may not be presented
 >> >> with them normally. I’m not sure if that is detectable from
 >> >> within LC though.
 >> >
 >> > One thing to be aware of with this approach is that it won’t work
 >> > if your app is sandboxed (apps distributed through the Mac App
 >> > Store are sandboxed). When sandboxed you can only write to a file
 >> > path that the user explicitly specifies. You will get an error if
 >> > you try to change the path that the user specified in the save as
 >> > dialog.
 >>
 >> Good point. Thanks for that, Trevor.
 >>
 >> It would seem an enhancement request is in order.
 >>
 >> Paul, are you in a position to file that?
 >
 > I will file an enhancement request. I'd like to see a
 > future/alternative version of ask file that provides the callbacks
 > Ralph mentioned. Perhaps as an LCB widget?

Thanks in advance.  It'll be good to get that standard behavior.

If it were a new command/function, writing it with LCB using FFI would 
probably be an excellent choice.  Indeed, just about anyone in the 
community could do it.

But in this case it's an extension of an existing command built into the 
engine, so doing this feature completion in the existing engine code 
would seem maybe a better move.

After all, if it were written in LCB, we'd then have two different 
versions of some form of Ask File command, and we'd have to remember the 
nuances between them, which one has what, and if we want the LCB version 
we'd have to remember to add that component wherever it's needed.

As a feature completion of the existing engine-based command, this would 
be available to everyone always, and it's common enough to expect most 
folks will want it.  And less to remember.

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