You're right, hadn't thought of that! Well, I'll implement it like that for now but I'll keep an eye on this thread, see if anyone has a better idea! :)

On 23-Nov-08, at 1:55 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:

Hi,

I used something pretty much identical in a program of mine, but quickly realized that, although it worked, it wasn't scalable enough -- it made me feel a little uneasy. For instance, if you are saving a file over a slow network, it'll have to check each file's existence every time -- but it could take significantly longer for each file in such a case. I'm not sure what would be best, frankly. I hope that someone else will chime in with a built-in solution!

Best,
        Andrew

On Nov 23, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote:

mmm I guess I'm a little slow today hehe...

something like this would probably work (pseudo-code):

cnt = 1
filename = "Picture " + cnt
while(file exist (filename))
        cnt ++



On 23-Nov-08, at 1:45 PM, Jean-Nicolas Jolivet wrote:

I would love to implement something like the default screenshot utility for OS X does when it names its pictures.. (i.e. Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3.. etc.)

I was wondering if there's already something in place to do that? If not, I don't mind implementing it myself but I can't really think of a simple way to do it? Counting the files in a directory is not really a reliable way to do it (i.e. if you have Picture 2 and Picture 3 in a directory, your count is 2... try naming your new picture Picture 3 and it overwrites the existing Picture 3 ...)

I'm fairly good with RegEx so it would be easy to parse filenames for numbers I guess but it seems a little overkill for such a trivial task... (especially since my app wouldn't use Regex for anything else so, I dont want to add a regex framework just for that)...

Any ideas would be appreciated?

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