[newbie] How do you save to a file?

Stephan B. Wessels stephan.wessels at sdrc.com
Tue Apr 20 14:14:42 UTC 1999


Dan,

I've always suspected that was true just because it seems so obvious in need.  How do I do this from Windows?  Ctrl-O and Alt-O does not appear to do anything.

  - Steve

Dan Ingalls wrote:

> "Stephan B. Wessels" <stephan.wessels at sdrc.com> wrote...
>
> >I find myself wanting to save from a workspace pretty often.  My solution was to
> >subclass Workspace and add contents save code and a menu entry to make it
> >happen.  It's pretty simple to do.  If there's interest I'll post the code here.
>
> Another solution to this is to work in a fileList.  If you don't like the extra realEstate consumed by the list part, just 'spawn' (cmd-o) the file.  A lot of people don't kow about this feature of most browsers.  In this case, it gives you something as simple as a workspace (without stored variables, it's true), but with file save available.
>
>         - Dan





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