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      tvcasualty
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      Sorry to drudge up old news, but this is an embarrassingly old issue, be nice to have a filter option in the API by now.
      Here was my solution because I didn't like the fact that it could possibly overwrite a file accidentally using TIGs approach (untitled != untitled.txt for example). Anyhow it can be a burden to hit save twice, but I'd rather do that 100x then accidentally save over something important.

      Where:

      
      EXT = "txt"
      default_dir = "c;\\temp\\"
      default_file = "untitled"
      
      

      The following while loop:

      
      name_valid = false 
      while name_valid == false 
       path_to_save_to = UI.savepanel("Save Code File", default_dir, default_file)
       #path_to_save_to = path_to_save_to.tr("\\","/") # This maybe required.
       fileext = File.extname(path_to_save_to) # filename with prefix stripped
       filebase = File.basename(path_to_save_to, ".#{EXT}")
       #puts fileext.inspect
       if fileext == "" || fileext == nil
        default_file = filebase + ".#{EXT}"
        UI.messagebox "Oops! Including the file extension '#{EXT}'\nThis is an embarrassing workaround...\nPlease hit save again."
        #puts default_file.inspect
       else
        filename = filebase + ".#{EXT}"
        path_to_save_to = File.dirname(path_to_save_to) + "\\" + filename
        name_valid = true
       end
      end
      
      
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