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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    KFileDia & Extensions (was: i may have been too clever by half here)
From:       Werner Trobin <wtrobin () carinthia ! com>
Date:       2000-02-18 16:26:28
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Werner Trobin wrote:
> 
> dep wrote:
> >
> > greetings!
> >
> > i'm using kde2 and koffice from cvs of 16 february. and i thought i'd
> > give kword a spin by using it to work on the outline of a new book. it
> > works great except for one thing: i need to send my work to my
> > publisher. i figured i'd either save it as a .txt file or copy from
> > kword and paste into a plain text editor.
> >
> > problem is, edit > select all > copy causes kword to disappear without
> > putting anything into the paste buffer. and saving in any format other
> > than .kwd produces the same effect. i've looked at the .kwd file in a
> > text editor, and whatever kword does, it does it very impressively -- i
> > couldn't make heads nor tails of it.
> 
> This is a compressed tar file. Just gunzip and untar it :)
> 
> > so then, with my apologies for getting myself into this situation -- i
> > should have known better -- any way of getting my stuff out of kword so
> > i can mail it out?
> 
> Normally the *.txt stuff should work, though - I'll look into that.
> 

As I found out the KFileDialog does not append the selected extension to
the file. Therefore KWord adds *.kwd, the mimetype is KWord and the kwd
file gets saved. If one writes "test.txt" then it works!

The reason I cross-posted this on KDE-CORE ist that I wanted to ask if I
should change the KFD (to add the extension to the URL). Is there any
reason that this isn't done automatically?

Werner

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