file save dialog help

[acana007]

i need help with my file dialog it works kinda

$var = FileSaveDialog( "Choose a name." & ".txt", $MyDocsFolder, "blah (*.txt)", 2)
        FileWrite($var, $var2 & $var3)

this is what it currently is and it works except it won't append the .txt to the end of the file how do i get it to do that?

[monoceres]

  acana007 said:

i need help with my file dialog it works kinda

$var = FileSaveDialog( "Choose a name." & ".txt", $MyDocsFolder, "blah (*.txt)", 2)
         FileWrite($var, $var2 & $var3)

this is what it currently is and it works except it won't append the .txt to the end of the file how do i get it to do that?

You have to do that manually, like this:

$var = FileSaveDialog( "Choose a name." & ".txt", $MyDocsFolder, "blah (*.txt)", 2)
If StringRight($var,4)<>".txt" Then $var&=".txt"
FileWrite($var, $var2 & $var3)

[acana007]

  monoceres said:

You have to do that manually, like this:

$var = FileSaveDialog( "Choose a name." & ".txt", $MyDocsFolder, "blah (*.txt)", 2)
If StringRight($var,4)<>".txt" Then $var&=".txt"
FileWrite($var, $var2 & $var3)

can you explain to me why this works

edit

never mind i understand it now but i think that it should be installed via an option in the FileSaveDialog function

Edited May 11, 2008 by acana007

[monoceres]

  acana007 said:

can you explain to me why this works

First I check if the user already has entered .txt, I do this by extracting the last four chars and comparing them. If they are not equal to ".txt" then I add ".txt" to the string, I do this with &=