1 00:00:01,580 --> 00:00:06,450 OK, in this video, we're going to start to work on the save as P and G function. 2 00:00:06,470 --> 00:00:09,890 Now, this is going to take us a few videos because it's not hard. 3 00:00:09,890 --> 00:00:12,140 It's just a lots of moving pieces to this. 4 00:00:12,170 --> 00:00:17,030 So the first thing we want to do when we click that button, we want a box to pop up and we want it 5 00:00:17,030 --> 00:00:21,330 to be the the traditional save dialog box that you see in any program. 6 00:00:21,350 --> 00:00:27,110 So, for instance, if we click here, file save, as you see this box pops up the save as box and we 7 00:00:27,110 --> 00:00:32,360 can then name our file and save it when we want that sort of thing to pop up because people are familiar 8 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:32,720 with that. 9 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:33,010 Right. 10 00:00:33,020 --> 00:00:39,500 So fortunately, Kintore has a thing that allows us to to use one of those pop up boxes with a save 11 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:40,250 dialog. 12 00:00:40,610 --> 00:00:41,780 And it's pretty simple. 13 00:00:41,780 --> 00:00:43,040 We just need to import it. 14 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,420 So that thing is called a file dialog box. 15 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:46,730 Right. 16 00:00:46,730 --> 00:00:48,740 So we can just from Kintner. 17 00:00:50,110 --> 00:00:50,980 Import. 18 00:00:53,020 --> 00:01:01,600 File dialogue, so this will allow us to use the file dialogue widget thing that comes with Kenta so 19 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:07,590 that we can come back down here to our save as page function and let's create a variable called result. 20 00:01:07,630 --> 00:01:10,160 This is the resulting file name that we're going to create. 21 00:01:10,390 --> 00:01:15,100 So to get the file name that we want, let's go file dialogue. 22 00:01:15,850 --> 00:01:19,930 And then the file dialogue has several different functions in it. 23 00:01:20,110 --> 00:01:22,960 And what we want to do is find out a save name. 24 00:01:23,150 --> 00:01:28,690 So we need to ask save as file name. 25 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:33,350 So ask save as file name, and we just. 26 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,270 With this apart, so you can see asked save as file name, right? 27 00:01:39,980 --> 00:01:41,540 So this back. 28 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,900 Now we can set the initial directory, we want it to show up. 29 00:01:47,150 --> 00:01:52,220 So, for instance, when we come here and click Save, as you can see, I'm in this patent directory, 30 00:01:52,220 --> 00:01:54,140 which is the directory that we're currently in. 31 00:01:54,410 --> 00:01:54,730 Right. 32 00:01:54,770 --> 00:01:58,820 So we can say, hey, where do we want to save this? 33 00:01:58,820 --> 00:02:01,400 Let's just save it in this patent directory. 34 00:02:01,940 --> 00:02:02,840 Or I can. 35 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:03,020 Right. 36 00:02:03,020 --> 00:02:08,240 Click here and click new folder and let's create a folder or we're going to save our images. 37 00:02:08,930 --> 00:02:14,360 So here now we've got this images in our patent directory where we've been saving our file up until 38 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:14,630 now. 39 00:02:14,630 --> 00:02:14,990 Right. 40 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:20,420 And let's save our stuff in there so we can set that as the the default initial directory. 41 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,800 And to do that, we just call initial IIR. 42 00:02:24,730 --> 00:02:31,210 So that's initial in ITIL year and where do we want this to go? 43 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:37,690 Well, I want this in my C drive in our paint directory, which is the directory we're in and images. 44 00:02:38,630 --> 00:02:44,860 If we look back in our terminal here, we see we're in our sea paint directory and if we type in alst, 45 00:02:44,860 --> 00:02:47,730 we could see we've got this image is directory that we just created. 46 00:02:48,220 --> 00:02:48,480 Right. 47 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,500 So that's where we're at there. 48 00:02:50,750 --> 00:02:54,490 Now, we want to say this is a PG and there are all kinds of different files. 49 00:02:54,490 --> 00:02:59,800 You can save a thing as PNG DJ Pegg's gift's I want PNG. 50 00:02:59,830 --> 00:03:01,480 So we want to define that. 51 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:05,530 We want to make sure that's the only option they have to choose from, because we want to make sure 52 00:03:05,530 --> 00:03:13,270 we save it as a certain file type so we can call file types and then set that equal to two brackets. 53 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,310 And then instead of here, let's go PNG files, comma. 54 00:03:19,330 --> 00:03:25,230 And then another set of quotation marks and let's go Star Dot PNG. 55 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:32,680 Now this is going to say allow this, allow us to save this as any name that PNG, the star stands for 56 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:37,960 anything so we can name this Bob PNG or my picture, not PNG or anything at all. 57 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,560 Dot PNG in this PNG files. 58 00:03:40,570 --> 00:03:41,870 I'll show you what that is in just a second. 59 00:03:41,890 --> 00:03:45,220 That's just a little title that will get printed out. 60 00:03:45,450 --> 00:03:53,620 Well, if we go here, file save as down here it'll say it'll say PNG files down here basically or somewhere 61 00:03:53,620 --> 00:03:54,190 around here. 62 00:03:54,340 --> 00:03:56,950 That's what that is right now. 63 00:03:57,310 --> 00:04:00,210 We also might want to be able to let them save. 64 00:04:00,220 --> 00:04:02,170 It is all file types as well. 65 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:03,030 Right? 66 00:04:03,130 --> 00:04:10,360 If we if we want that, we can then type in all files, give it a little name, and then here, just 67 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,490 like we want with star PNG. 68 00:04:12,940 --> 00:04:16,500 Well, now we would go star dot star. 69 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:18,330 Remember, the star means anything. 70 00:04:18,340 --> 00:04:26,320 So this will allow us to do all files, any type of file extension, png, jpeg, icon, gif, anything 71 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,470 you want, BNP, whatever. 72 00:04:28,750 --> 00:04:31,030 So OK, that should work. 73 00:04:31,660 --> 00:04:37,510 So let's go ahead and save this and just run this real quick just to see if that worked. 74 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:46,700 So now we click save to PNG, the box pops up here, remember, it says PNG files. 75 00:04:46,850 --> 00:04:53,060 That's where we typed in PNG files and we can save anything as dot PNG if we actually click here to 76 00:04:53,570 --> 00:04:54,960 type something and save it. 77 00:04:55,370 --> 00:05:00,080 It doesn't actually save this because we haven't told it to save it yet. 78 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,960 We haven't programmed it to save anything yet, but. 79 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:14,050 What this is doing, it's returning that name we just typed in, so if I typed Bob PMG result well equal 80 00:05:14,050 --> 00:05:18,730 now Bob Dot PNG and we can actually take a look at this if we want. 81 00:05:18,730 --> 00:05:21,760 Let's go a result underscore label. 82 00:05:22,210 --> 00:05:26,380 And this is a label and we want to just put this in one of the text equal result. 83 00:05:27,620 --> 00:05:32,940 And then let's go result, underscore a label that pack and let's give this a pat, why of 20, just 84 00:05:33,860 --> 00:05:34,640 push it down the screen. 85 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,040 So let's save this and run this guy again. 86 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:46,060 So saved PMG, I'm going to save this as Bob DCPI, Angie. 87 00:05:49,630 --> 00:05:52,450 We see it's in sea paint images, Bob, PMG. 88 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:54,930 OK, so now we're coming right along. 89 00:05:55,240 --> 00:06:01,330 We haven't actually saved anything yet, but now we have the directory name and the name of the file 90 00:06:01,330 --> 00:06:01,830 itself. 91 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:09,310 So now we can now say, hey, save this thing to this place and we'll start to look at that in the next 92 00:06:09,310 --> 00:06:09,700 video.