Subtitles of the Movie

In other movies we have seen the use of the color and the font dialog boxes. In this movie I will explore the open and save dialog boxes. Once again, we need to open in the Toolbox the Dialogs Section. You will notice there is an Open File Dialog, which I'll double click and there is also a Save Dialog, which I'll also double click. Each of these items is now placed in the components tray. I have a button that is Labeled File Open and I have a button, File Save. I will allow the File Open Button to interact with the Open File Dialog One Box, a component. I'll open the File Open Button and the code will simply be to open file me.open file dialog.show dialog open close parentheses. This one line of code taps into the open dialog box that is built into the Windows environment. To demonstrate, I'll run the program. At run time I'll click the File Open Button and as you'll note, here is a familiar open dialog box, pre-written by Windows. Nothing else you need to do. You simply can allow the user now to click on the drop-down arrow and explore the various parts of the computer system as to where they might want to save a file. So click File Open and then they are able to specify the file. Now, there are some other fine tuning you could do to this. You could specify a certain file type by placing a filter, but that's beyond the scope of what this movie is going to discuss. But to get the open dialog box, very simple, one line of code. Me.open file dialog.show dialog. Now, if we return to our form and you recall I also placed the save file dialog box in the components tray so I'll associate that with the File Save Button and likewise, I'll simply type me.; this time it's save file dialog one.show dialog. Again, this one line of code will then call upon the pre-written Save As Button. So when I execute this at run time, clicking the File Save Button, here is your Save As Box. Again, it's defaulting to a debug folder but you could specify where to it be defaulted to or simply allow the user to specify a different file by typing a file name and they could specify the file type as well. So this is very simple to use to allow the user to interact with your system and to open a file or to save a file. The other common dialog boxes, the color and the font dialog boxes, are explored in separate movies.