 | | | MEL: Creating a new file | MEL: Creating a new file 2003-12-08 - By Andrew Chapman
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Andrew Chapman wrote:
> Taisuke Tanimura wrote:
>
>>I have a MEL script that saves some animation data out to file. I've run
>>into a problem when I want to save the data out to a new file - there
>>doesn't seem to be an way in MEL to have the user "pick" a file that
>>doesn't exist and have the path to that non-existent file returned. The
>>fileDialog command only returns a string if the user picks an existing
>>file. I could work around it by popping up a text box and have the user
>>manually enter the full path and then create the file via fopen, but it
>>would be nice to use the file picker to do this. Has anyone had similar
>>problems or know of a workaround? Thanks!
>
> You could start with a base name, and append increasing numbers to the
> end until you find one that doesn't exist. Use fopen() in read mode to
> test for file existence (would be nice if the sysFile command had a
> -exists flag wouldn't it?).
Erm, yeah... totally misread that post sorry ;)
I thought you were after a way to create a tempfile and be sure it
wasn't one that already existed.
Just ignore me, I've been working too long...
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Andrew Chapman
3D Technical Director - Framestore CFC
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