Saving a read-only Max file?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm currently integrating source control functionality into our 3DS Max plugins, and have come across a problem.

Attempting to save over a read-only file won't work - the save dialog rejects the attemtp before any of my code is reached.

I'm using the NOTIFY_FILE_PRE_SAVE notification, but this must be happening too late. Obviously the files have to be marked as read-only because they are not checked out at the point where the first save is requested.

Is there any way around this? If not, could a future release/patch of Max support allowing the NOTIFY_FILE_PRE_SAVE callback to happen earlier, so that I could remove the read-only status of
the file before it is opened and written to?

I don't want to check the file out when it is opened, as that could become counter-productive.

But hopefully I've missed something and it's already possible to work around this somehow?

Thanks,
Richard

[Anonymous]

I know you posted awhile ago; hopefully you've found a solution by now, but just in case:
You can use the SDK to call a maxscript command that sets the file attribute:

ManagedServices.MaxscriptSDK.ExecuteMaxscriptCommand(("setFileAttribute " + (myFile) + " #readOnly false"))

The maxscript command used here is

setFileAttribute <filename_string> <attribute> <boolean>

You could use this before doing the file dialog, this would set the file attribute without actually checking it out.