presetting filename in FILEDIALOG

[tsh73]

Suppose I am adding SAVE functionality to my program.
And I wish user to be able to name a file as he wants
- FILEDIALOG, fine
But I also want to provide some generated name, like
list20190410_204221.txt
so user just clicked OK and done with it.

Now, could I preset filename in FILDIALOG?

this works for me:
   fname$="list20190410_204221.txt"
   FILEDIALOG "Save the file", fname$, fname$
   if fname$="" then
       print "Cancelled by user"
   else
       print "selected fname$ >";fname$;"<"
   end if
   end


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(this is not mentioned in a helpfile.
And I had hard time finding it - happened just because mixing fName$ and fname$)
Really, JB2 has "Compiler report" in Preferences - it would save me half a day.

[xxgeek]

Hey, thanks for sharing this.
I'm going to adopt it for use in the Program Organizer to pre-select the date for projects and files for users who may want the date appended.



   fname$=date$()
   FILEDIALOG "Save the file", fname$, fname$
   if fname$="" then
       print "Cancelled by user"
   else
       print "selected fname$ >";fname$;"<"
   end if
   end