On 16 Mar, dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > In article <5lykAKBDRlvJFwSt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In message <7414B49525764BFA8240A708C18B441B@OFFICE>, jeff wallis > > <jeff.wallis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes > > >Is there an applet available for the Windows version of Ovation Pro > > >that will automatically add a incremental number to the filename each > > >time a file is saved? > > Does anyone know if there is such a thing for RISC OS? > > My feeling is that it could be done as a one line macro - read the > > filename, work out a number, generate new filename and save. > That would be useful, if one knew how... > If you have !Keystroke you can set up such a thing, IIRC page (Pause > while checks) yes page 44 of the Keystroke manual give some description > of how to set it up... Additional IIRC it can be given a timer so that > every nn seconds or minutes, set by the user it will auto save with > incremental number. > Dave Hush my mouth, and chop off my fingers... I already have something in OvPro that does that very thing. It's a Macro button containing... I even have an sprite in my pool for it. {save_incremented()} You save the first time manually. "Myfile001" thereafter at the click of the tool button is saves again as !Myfile002" and so on. Dave -- To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling