Probably your saving is overwriting the file.
Charles Yeomans
On Apr 7, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Lennox Jacob wrote:
> Thanks Sven,
> Did this:
>
> Dim f as FolderItem
> Dim DateCr, DateMod as date
>
> If Document = Nil or DisplaySaveDialog then
> #If TargetWin32 //if on windows
> f=GetSaveFolderItem("rtf",FileName) //use rtf fle type
> #else //on Linux or Macintosh
> f=GetSaveFolderItem("text",FileName)
> #endif
>
> If f.exists then
> DateCr = f.CreationDate
> f.CreationDate = DateCr
> DateMod = New date
> f.ModificationDate = DateMod
> end if
>
> If f<>Nil then //if the user clicked Save
> Title=f.Name //window Title gets the name of the document
> Document=f //window property gets the folderitem
> End if
> End if
>
>
> If Document<>Nil then
> Document.SaveStyledEditField TextField
> TextHasChanged=False
> End if
>
> But same thing happens.
>
> Kindly advise.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lennox
>
> Sven E Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2007-04-07, at 22:24, Lennox Jacob wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was going through the REALbasic Tutorial (TextEditor-ch9.rbp)
>> again and I noticed that when a file is created and then modified,
>> both the Creation and Modification Dates and Times are always
>> updated to the date and time of saving.
>>
>> If the file is closed then reopened and modified, again the
>> Creation and Modification Dates and Times are the date and time of
>> saving.
>>
>> How can that be corrected so that the Creation date and time
>> remains unchanged whilst the Modification date and time of saving
>> be updated?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Lennox
>>
>
> something like this
>
> if File Exists then
> read old date to a variable
> write new file
> newfile.CreationDate = olddate
> end if
>
> (check the LR folderitems about date and time stamps on files)
> Sven E
>
>
>
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