Save to text file

[micro04]

Why is this not saving text from Field1 to the selected file.

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ask file "Save to"  with type "text files|TXT"
         put ".txt"  after it
         if it is empty then 
            break
         end if
                
         put field "Field1" into myText
         open file it for write
            
         write myText to file it
         Close  file it

[FourthWorld]

Difficult to say without error-checking.

Try adding this:

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   open file it for write
   if the result is not empty then
      answer the result &"( "& sysError() &")"
      exit to top
   end if

[bogs]

Heya micro04,

You have a lot of stuff going on you don't actually need. Try something like this instead -

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         ask file "Please select a name and location for this file..." with "Untitled.text"
         if it is not empty then
            put it into tmpFilePath
            put field 1 into url("File:" & tmpFilePath)
         end if
         break

[Klaus]

Hi micro04,

well...

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...
ask file "Save to"  with type "text files|TXT"
put ".txt"  after it

## Since you put something after IT, IT is of course never empty, so this:
if it is empty then 
## does not make sense!

 ##  break
 ## BREAK will exit a SWITCH structure, but you need to exit this handler.
 ## so BREAK will not work here
end if
...

You should get used to the shorter URL syntax, do like this:

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...
ask file "Save to"  with type "text files|TXT"
if IT = empty then
   exit mouseup ## if this is inside a mouseup handler!
end if

## IT may change when you least exspect IT, 
## so better put IT into another var immediately!
put it into tFileName
put ".txt"  after tFileName

## Now the URL one-liner :-)
put field "Field1" into url("file:" & tFileName)
...

That should do the trick.


Best

Klaus

[micro04]

added the line

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close file tFileName

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put field "Field1" into url("file:" & tFileName)

[bogs]

You don't need to close that. tFileName is only a variable holding 'it' in Klaus's example, 'it' is holding the path to the file your saving too.

## break ## BREAK will exit a SWITCH structure, but you need to exit this handler. ## so BREAK will not work here

Your example wasn't clear if you were using this inside of a menu item or not (I made the poor assumption you were using this inside a save or save as menu item). If this is inside a handler, such as mouseUp on a button, then Klaus's point is valid, you'd need an exit instead.

[Klaus]

added the line

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close file tFileName

after

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put field "Field1" into url("file:" & tFileName)

I wrote ONE-LINER and also meant it!
No need to close the file when using the URL syntax, believe me!

Do yourself a favour and read up all unknown terms in the dictionary for further infos!