[TxMt] Re: Save as Š dialogue

[Matt Neuburg]

On 11/6/06 4:29 AM, in article
AE0E3EEF-7BBC-41D3-A333-1E348D6D9934 at macromates.com, "Allan Odgaard"
<throw-away-1 at macromates.com> wrote:

> On 6. Nov 2006, at 12:55, Daniel Käsmayr wrote:
> 
>> When saving a file there is usually a pre-selected file name given
>> in the dialogueŠ such as for a markdown file it is
>> "untitled.markdown". The whole filename is selectedŠ but is it
>> possible to actually get only the "untitled" part selected?
> 
> Not really -- it¹s a system dialog, and the normal way to improve the
> user experience here, is to not show the extension at all, but I
> found that too abstract for a program which is used with hundreds of
> different extensions.

Not really. It's quite easy to select just the filename part:

    NSTextView* fe = (NSTextView*)[theSavePanel firstResponder];
    NSString* f = [[fe textStorage] string];
    f = [f stringByDeletingPathExtension];
    [fe setSelectedRange: NSMakeRange(0, [f length])];

For an example of an app that does this, look at Amadeus II. It's very
welcome behavior. m.

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