Save Photos from CD To Hard Drive

[JP Heidi]

I have seen a CD where there is a catalog of photos, you can choose either
hi-res or lo-res photos and click a "save" button. The windows Save dialoge
comes up and I can save the photo to where I want it on my hard drive.

Any ideas on how this was done in Director?

[Charles Parcell]

You will need an Xtra to save out binary data to a file. Check out binaryIO at [url]www.updateStage.com[/url]

[JB]

The free FileXtra4 xtra can copy external files from the
CD to a selected drive, using external image files is the inexpensive
way out, the xtra could use the actual fileName property of a linked
external member to locate the file.


There is a commercial xtra that can export director images to a newly
created file, should there be some special security reason not to use
external files.

[JP Heidi]

My original question:

I have seen a CD where there is a catalog of photos, you can choose either
hi-res or lo-res photos and click a "save" button. The windows Save dialog
comes up and I can choose where I want to save the photo to.

JB Replied using fileXtra4 would do the trick, however:

fx_FileCopy seems to copy to a pre-specified location (I want a
user-interactive function)

fx_FileSaveAsDialog gives me a user-interactive window so that I can save a
file where I choose, but I am confused as to what file it is saving?

Any other ideas? Thanks.

[JB]

You should be able to accomplish the task using those 2 functions a
little experimenting with sample code should get you on track.

fx_FileSaveAsDialog should give you the full destination path for
fx_FileCopy.


I am not looking at FileXtra4 commands, in general you provide the
default file name to fx_FileSaveAsDialog, the user can select the
destination folder and optionaly rename the file in this dialog, then
just provide fx_FileCopy the full path to the source file on the CD and
the destination path given by fx_FileSaveAsDialog.

To avoid the user renaming the file as it's copied one idealy would use
a folder select dialog function, these are not commonly available in
xtras, it's possible, using string manipulation to ignore the filename
entered by user, replacing the end of the fx_FileSaveAsDialog returne
path with the normal file name.