Re: Common Dialog - Change file extension

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"Bob Butler" <tiredofit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Ted" <2000@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> If you want to save a .bat in Notepad, you have to put
>> the extension in the filename and select All files, otherwise
>> it will save it in .txt.
>> BTW: If you didn't know, Notepad and Word made by Microsoft.
>
> It drives me nuts when an application does that. As the user I've told it
> that I want to save "test.bat" by typing that name and I don't
> particularly
> care if the filter is currently set to *.TXT or not. When the program
> thinks that it knows better than me and goes ahead and changes the
> filename
> to "test.bat.txt" because I didn't also change the filter selection all it
> does is irritate the user who then has to go out and manually change the
> filename back to what I told it I wanted in the first place!
>
A tricky area, for plain text files you are 100% right, but for files whose
format is distinct then the extension is the first thing the operating
system has to identify the file type.
Giving a BMP file the extension .PICCY or .BMAP or anything but .BMP will
cause problems when you want to open it.

Regards
Dave.


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