Saving Without a Dialog Box

[Simon Brown]

How can I make my FileType plugin save without a dialog box? I override the Save method and add the appropriet flags but when I test my plugin it shows a save dialog box.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Rick Brewster]

"Save" or "Save Configuration" ?

[Simon Brown]

I'm not sure what you mean.

But for some reason i've tried again and it now works.

[Simon Brown]

Sorry, it turns out I do have that problem. I have tried overriding both Save() functions including at the same time and I have also looked for appropriet aruments in the main class. No matter what the following dialog appears when testing my plugin:

[Rick Brewster]

Why does it have all the options for the DDS file type?

[Simon Brown]

Why does it have all the options for the DDS file type?

I have no idea - I used the dds as a guide when creating the template but I know all the code in the plugin. Maybe it's the default of the class with no overrides.

Edit: Sorry, it turned out to be because of a conflict problem with AVIImporter which I have now updated. May I suggest you update PDN to identify plugins by name rather than index (or at least count through plugins not supporting the given action) because I believe that is the cause of the problem.

[Rick Brewster]

I don't follow you. The configuration UI is pulled from the FileType instance by calling CreateSaveConfigWidget(). If your code was copied from DDS for that, then it will have the same config UI as DDS.

[Simon Brown]

I don't follow you. The configuration UI is pulled from the FileType instance by calling CreateSaveConfigWidget(). If your code was copied from DDS for that, then it will have the same config UI as DDS.

I didn't copy it from that - I used it as a reference to create the template and I didn't add any non-relevant code.

But what about the index thing?

[BoltBait]

You might want to check to be sure you aren't in his namespace.

[Simon Brown]

You might want to check to be sure you aren't in his namespace.

Visual Studio automatically changes the namespace - anyway, I didn't just copy the whole code.

[Rick Brewster]

Make sure your implementation of IFileTypeFactory is correct. Why are you saying that Paint.NET is using an index for identity? Did you look at the code, or are you just inferring/guessing?

[Simon Brown]

Make sure your implementation of IFileTypeFactory is correct. Why are you saying that Paint.NET is using an index for identity? Did you look at the code, or are you just inferring/guessing?

I didn't actually look at the code - but from my problems I am pretty sure it is an indexing consistancey issue.

[Rick Brewster]

I'm pretty sure the problem is in your code

[Simon Brown]

Well, the reason I think it is an indexing problem is because I got it to work by including the save option constant and the appropriet overrides even though my plugin is designed to open files.

[Rick Brewster]

You don't have any logic or proof to back that claim up though. You're just venturing a guess, but asserting it as fact.

If you don't want a save configuration dialog for your file type, then you should NOT implement the virtual method CreateSaveConfigWidget(). Nor should you implement the virtual method OnCreateDefaultSaveConfigToken().

[Simon Brown]

If you don't want a save configuration dialog for your file type, then you should NOT implement the virtual method CreateSaveConfigWidget(). Nor should you implement the virtual method OnCreateDefaultSaveConfigToken().

I didn't origionally, which was causing the problems, now that I have everything works.