Save As Dialog

[gwigington]

Well folks I have a real challenge. I am a VB coder that has now been informed by the boss that I need to learn enough Delphi that I can change a program from using a static string variable that is used to tell the application where to store files to having it open a save as dialog box so the user can select the location. To top it off I don't have the entire code (only a snippet that the developer sent), a compiler, and it has to be done by the 16th of December. Challenging!!!

Here is what I am thinking. If I could write the code in a .dll file then I will send the code to the developer and he can take it from there. Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks in advance

 

[Zathras]

I'm afraid that's not how it works here. Tek-Tips is not a free help desk. It is a community of professionals helping each other. None of us get paid for our services, and contact outside of these threads is discouraged.

Delphi has a component for displaying the File Save dialog, namely TFileSave.

Look it up in the help file. It's not that hard. You set properties in a way that should seem familiar to a VB programmer.

Good luck.

If you get stuck, start a new thread and post the code you have come up with so far. Someone will then be glad to review it and give you a hand.

 

[Stretchwickster]

Also look up TSaveDialog in the Delphi help.

All you have to do is make a call to the Execute method:

if SaveDialog1.Execute then
  filename := SaveDialog1.FileName;

Clive

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