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prognase
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago

Control file save dialog, different Windows versions

Hi all,   I am having a problem to DelphiScript a series of exports. Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 seem to use different file type entries in the "save as" dialogs of the OS: one shows the description...
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    AlexKaras
    10 years ago

    Hi Matthias,

     

    FileType is an optional parameter of the SaveFile method and usually the file is saved with the correct extension as long as you provide it in the file name. So, any problems if you leave the FileType parameter with the default -1 value (or omit it at all as I did in my projects)?

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almmatt
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In our testing, we decided to just get the text value of the "Type" drop-down box, assign it to a variable, and then pass it back in when interacting with the dialog.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Matt

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prognase
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago

Hi Matt,

 

could you elaborate a bit more? What you do seems to be like what I tried with reading all dropdown list values for file types and then looping over that, i.e. always having the right version with or w/o extension in the string.

 

However, the objects and their child structure differ between the 10 and 8.1 versions, so I would need to know the exact "paths" for each of the dropdowns. Making it more complicated, my license for TC is on 10, TE is on 8.1, and in TE there is no recording, so no easy capturing of the components and their attributes.

 

Very much interested how you approached this issue.

 

Thanks,

Matthias