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Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript

From Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript
Date 2017-08-21 12:01 +0100
Message-ID <210820171201023503%timstreater@greenbee.net> (permalink)
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In article <c897922c-c8ea-4530-a900-bfcbf78074f2@googlegroups.com>,
<jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> wrote:

>Den måndag 21 augusti 2017 kl. 12:23:22 UTC+2 skrev Evertjan.:
>> Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote on 21 Aug 2017 in 
>> comp.lang.javascript:
>> 
>> >>Maybe i should ask do the OS GUI open dialog work also for those using
>> >>Mac OS and Linux OS?
>> > 
>> > What javascript method are you using to cause a Windows 10 "open dialog
>> > box" to appear, and which one are you expecting to use to cause a
>> > Windows 10 "save dialog box" to appear?
>> 
>> Still don't know what you, Jonas, mean by a "windows save dialog box"
>> 
>> Do you perhaps mean 
>> a "file upload dialog box" or perhaps
>> a "file download dialog box"
>> and then specifically non-Mac?
>> 
>> I don't think it is so "trivial" to explain your Q clearly on request.

>Trivial, trivial, trivial "at least it should be" because there was no problem
>with open dialog box
>
>https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646960(v=vs.85).aspx

OK, so Windows has dialog box methods. Amazing, eh? Although that page
doesn't appear to describe what language to use.

I still want to know:

What javascript method are you using to cause a Windows 10 "open dialog
box" to appear, and which one are you expecting to use to cause a
Windows 10 "save dialog box" to appear?

-- 
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without 
evidence."
-- Christopher Hitchens

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Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-16 08:54 -0700
  Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-18 07:41 -0700
  Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-19 02:47 -0700
    Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-08-19 12:10 +0200
      Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-19 03:19 -0700
      Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-19 03:43 -0700
        Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-08-19 15:15 +0200
          Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-19 12:58 -0700
            Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-08-19 23:59 +0200
              Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-20 15:00 -0700
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-08-21 01:26 +0200
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-21 00:35 -0700
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-08-21 09:17 +0100
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-08-21 12:23 +0200
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-21 03:31 -0700
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-08-21 14:51 +0200
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-21 07:09 -0700
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-22 02:03 -0700
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-21 03:42 -0700
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-08-21 12:01 +0100
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-08-21 14:55 +0200
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-21 00:40 -0700
                Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-08-21 09:19 +0100
  Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2017-08-22 00:42 +0200
    Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-22 00:12 -0700
    Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-22 00:33 -0700
    Re: Open windows save dialog from javascript jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2017-08-22 00:37 -0700

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