Vista and writing a blank file: blank file, vista, permissions

Vista and writing a blank file

Hi there,

I got an application which tries to save a text file to the users desktop.
XP this works fine, but Vista I get a blank file.
After searching google I know that this is a permissions issue, but why can't the user write to there own desktop? Or My Documents.

Frustrating! I even wrapped it in try finally, but there is no error message/exception. It just fails to write anything other then blank file.

Built with D2007

If SaveDialog1.Execute then
begin
  sl := TStringList.create;
  sl.add('hello');
  sl.SaveToFile(SaveDialog1.FileName);
  sl.Free;
end;

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Right figured out the solution finally.

It seems that with vista and dialogs and listviews.

When the user clicked Save it would fire up a TSaveDialog, then it would try and see which of the two listviews had focus and it would save that list.

However in vista, once the dialog was poped and closed the listview would loose focus. To get around this I would have to build the content BEFORE the dialog was opened.

before and after summary code below

(I don't have the code infront of me, it's either isFocused or has Focus or just Focused, it's a standard property of the listview)

begin
  if SaveDialog.execute then
  begin
    if Listview1.IsFocused then
    { generate content into str variable }
    
    if Listview2.IsFocused then
    { generate this content in str variable }
 
    Save content to SaveDialog.FileName;
  end;
end;
 
to make it work I had to...
 
begin
  if Listview1.IsFocused then
  { generate content into str variable }
    
  if Listview2.IsFocused then
  { generate this content in str variable }
 
  if SaveDialog.execute then
  begin
    Save content to SaveDialog.FileName;
  end;
end;

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