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### Saving a calendar design

The Save design ... button opens a small window offering the choices for saving a new calendar design.
The choices are straightforward and take effect when the Continue button is pressed, which will open a normal ‘Save box’.

> With

> Save as a new calendar file

> chosen, the ‘Save box’ writable icon will contain the full path to the

> UserRes.Calendars

> sub-directory - with the next available leafname automatically included.

> Save by overwriting loaded calendar file

> will open the ‘Save box’ with the full path of the currently loaded calendar file shown.

> Save by overwriting default calendar file for this format

> will open the ‘Save box’ with the full path of the default file for the displayed format.

Because !Calibre automatically enters the appropriate full save path into the ‘Save box’, the saving action is best actioned by clicking the OK button in the ‘Save box’. This will ensure that the UserRes and Defaults directories are managed efficiently.
In all cases where an existing file would be overwritten a final warning is given before the saving action proceeds.
Whenever a calendar file is saved in this way the new file automatically becomes the currently loaded file - and any displayed pictures are retained on the display.
A saved calendar design includes all the measurements, offsets, justifications, text fonts/sizes, and colour choices, as well as the various options within the design editing sub-panes. The scale of the display is also saved for the initial view on loading that design.
Although picture area sizes etc. are saved, information on the actual pictures to be used is not saved, as one design might be used for several different sets of pictures.
Although the saved files have a unique file type (&1CC “calfile”) they are textfiles in an application-specific style, which varies between the formats. They look like this in the Filer.
The saved ‘calfiles’ are best left strictly alone: the numerous explanatory text in them is for my benefit!
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