hi again. I was wondering how to make a save or open file dialog actually work. for example I want to make the dialog to be able to know what format I want the file to be saved (witch is RTF and TXT formats) and I want the open file dialog to open RTF and TXT files only...

basically i'm using the RTF component to act as a writing area so I want to be able to make the text savable and the possibility to open files...

i'm using the line of code and code. this only opens the dialogs....

hope is clear enough what i'm asking

any help appreciated

To set it so the user can only save as certain types you need to set the Filter Property. To determine which button the user selected on your dialog, check the DialogResult value. Here is a small example of working with the 2 items I linked to:

Private Sub button1_Click(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles button1.Click()
    'Create a stream to hold the file data
    Dim myStream As Stream
    'Create a FileSaveDialog
    Dim sfd As New SaveFileDialog()
    'Set the filter of the SaveFileDialog
    sfd.Filter = "RichText Files (*.rtf)|*.rtf|Text Files (*.txt)|*.txt"
    'Set the selected file type
    sfd.FilterIndex = 2
    'Setting this property to true will
    'cause the dialog to remember the last
    'directory the user was in
    sfd.RestoreDirectory = True

    'Now check the DialogResult to see what the user selected
    If sfd.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
        'Since they selected OK (Save) we need to
        open the file and add it to our Stream
        myStream = sfd.OpenFile()
        'Now make sure the user selected a file
        If (myStream IsNot Nothing) Then
            ' Code to save the file goes here
            'Now close your stream
            myStream.Close()
        End If
    End If
End Sub

Hope that helps a little

thanks for the quick response ...
I will try the code soon but thanks again so much

just wondering, will this allow me to open a text file as well? as in use one button for save and one for open file, etc...




This post has been edited by unlimited: 29 Feb, 2008 - 04:16 PM

No problem, glad I could help. Now tell all your programming friends about us

hehe I already did but not many of my friends are into programming . oh well