Save File dialog box

Hello, I would like to popup a dialog box when the user clicks Save so that they may navigate to a location on their hard drive to save the file. Then, they click OK or something similar and the file is saved to the location they choose.
Can anyone point me in the direction of examples on how to do this?

If I knew where to find the 'FM', I wouldn't have posted my question. But thanks for being so angry on a forum intended to 'help' people.

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I will click a link for a download and the box will pop up saying
"You have chosen to open "blahblah.blah.blah
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Save File"
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Using any Windows client, when you press the button the form brings up a Dialog box for the file name. Everything works fine in Windows.
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proxyHost=null
proxyPort=null
connectMode=HTTP,native
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proxyPort=0
connectMode=HTTP, native.
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I deleted my localstore, but save file dialog box is still maximized and unresizable

I had this error once before, and I was able to google a solution, but it was a long time ago and I Forget the solution, and since then the seo on this issue has become poluted with useless information :(
I'm using firefox 17 but I don't think that matters.

The dialog that lets you choose a folder after you select Save Page As or press Ctrl+s? I think that is a standard Windows dialog and its size is not stored in localstore.rdf.
Try double-clicking the title bar. That works on many resizable dialogs in Windows.
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although the exact location is indicated in your crash report as quoted above - look under 'Binary Images'.
Close Safari and delete them, then restart Safari and it should be working normally. Alternatively drag them to the desktop and restart Safari. then add them back one at a time, restarting Safari every time, until you find the one (or more) causing the crash.
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In javascript how to invoke save as dialog box ,which saves .pdf files only

Through javascript i generated a save as dialog box. the main problem is , it is only saving .html and .doc files by default. how to restrict it to save only .pdf files.
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How can I add form field value to the file name in save as dialog box

I do not want the form to be saved automatically, just want the form to auto populate the "file name" only.
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I want to be able to rename, delete or move a file when I am in an Open or Save As dialog box. Sometimes when I am opening a file or saving a new file I spot an existing file that needs to be renamed, moved to a folder or even deleted. In Windows I would just take care of that file and then keep going with what I was doing in the first place. This doesn't seem to work in Mac OSX. I have to stop, go to a Finder window, go to the location, do what I want to do to the file and then go back to the Open or Save As dialog box. There's go to be a better way in the "world's most advanced operating system." Ideas?

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There's go to be a better way in the "world's most advanced operating system."
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I am migrating an application hosted earlier on Oracle 9iAS (9.0.3.1 BP1) to OracleAS 10g (10.1.3) with Struts 1.2.9. While the below JSP code worked for the earlier s/w stack when accessed using IE 5.5 SP2 or above, a blank page is displayed with the new s/w stack. What I mean by "worked earlier" is this. A "Open/Save As" dialog box would appear. Trying to "Open" would open a new IE window launching MS Excel and displaying correct data. Trying to "Save As" would display correct filename and extension in the dialog box.
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Thanks a lot for your valuable time..

I have made it to work with the below changes:
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2. Added <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher> and <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
3. Everything else (code-wise) is as before.
Because of these changes, the filter, wherein some headers are being added to the response, is being invoked appropriately now.
Thanks for you time and suggestion though...

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