[Gambas-user] save to a file

[Rob]

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 16:38, Jochen Georges wrote:
>     File.Save("test2.txt", TextArea1.Text)
> this does not work.
> If the file already exist, i get a message "access forbidden".
> If it does not, i get a message "file or directory does not
> exist"

Specifying a filename with no path means you want to use the 
current directory, which is usually the directory of your Gambas 
project.  This works fine when you're in the IDE, but after 
you've compiled the project and made an executable, filenames 
without paths refer to files embedded in your executable.  Since 
you can't write to embedded files like that, the language 
prevents you from writing to files without pathnames even if 
you're running the program from the IDE.  (I personally think it 
should simply write a file to the current directory as it exists 
at runtime, and assume the programmer knows what he is doing, 
but I am not Benoit ;) )

I would suggest using something like File.Save(System.Home &/ 
"test2.txt", TextArea1.Text).

Rob