I have a question or possible feature request. In the application I
am working on, users can create files to save data to. I check to
make sure, when a user enters a new file name to be created, that the
file does not already exist. Since I always append a suffix to the
file name if the user has neglected to do this, I cannot rely on the
standard replace query feature in the file save dialog box to catch
duplicate file names (since, if the user didn't append the suffix,
the file name used would be different from the one that the standard
dialog would check for).
I suppose that I could go in & hack the standard file save dialog box
(on a Mac, anyhow), but I'd rather not mess with that. I could also
create a MC stack to imitate the standard box, but then the
functionality of any add-on things (e.g.default folder) would be
lost. I could also keep making them enter file names until they got
a unique one, but repeatedly showing the dialog box is pretty
non-standard behavior.
What would really be nice is if MC could relay the fact that the user
had responded positively to the replace file query from the standard
dialog box. If this info is easy to get, would it not be possible
to, for example, put "Replace" in the result if this were the case?
Any comments on this or simple solutions I've overlooked would be welcome...
Dave Tremmel
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