Re: Newbie question: forcing data format during saveDocumentTo:
Re: Newbie question: forcing data format during saveDocumentTo:
- Subject: Re: Newbie question: forcing data format during saveDocumentTo:
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:22:31 -0700
OK, a little background can only help. I am writing a specialized word
processor that keeps track of a lot of information beyond the text
itself. Eventually, until the world adopts my program as a standard,
people need to be able to dump the raw text data so that other word
processors can use it. However, that exported data is completely
useless to my program. Once the RTF or TXT data is exported, it can no
longer be edited by my software. That means that when a user selects
Save As they would not be able to edit the document they just saved;
they would still be editing the original. This is true of any software
that has write-only formats.
Jerry
On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 01:38 PM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
At 10:01 Uhr -0700 10.09.2003, email@hidden wrote:
Unfortunately for me, I have not been able to come up with a
dramatically better name for the action in my program than "Export".
I have modified it to say "Export Text", but that feels like
upgrading the description of Earth from "harmless" to "mostly
harmless". It doesn't really make it as intuitively obvious as
"compile" does. Of course, naming the action "compile" assumes your
user is familiar with the name of the process for creating an object
file.
Jerry,
I can't find the original posting of this thread... it's probably got
delayed on some mail server, that seems to happen a lot recently, that
I get answers before the questions.
What exactly is your command doing? What kind of text does it export
from where? Would "Extract Text" make sense? "Generate Text"?
--
Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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