Question about save dialog box

General
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Hi All.

Silly little question here…
Why do we have to put a file type in a save dialog box?

From the examples supplied:

f = FolderItem.ShowSaveFileDialog(myTextDocuments.myTextFiles.Extensions, “”+URLField.text+"")

I have tried creating a file group type for text, but even when I have text files, they aren’t “enabled”. They can be selected and overwritten, but they are grey (I’m on Mac with Catalina)

Regards

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There’s bugs with file type that make it so this is how I always do save / open dialogs:

var ftMyFile as new FileType
ftMyFile.Name = "My File Type"
ftMyFile.Extensions = ".mft"

var oSave as new SaveAsDialog
oSave.Filter = ftMyFile
oSave.SuggestedFileName = "My Great File.mft"

var fDestination as FolderItem = oSave.ShowModal
if fDestionation = nil then return

// Saving code goes here

I tend to find the shortcuts bite.