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FileSel::Set does not appear to work [message #15654]

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:34

Tom1
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Hi,

The FileSel::Set() does not appear to work correctly as of 2008.1beta if FileSel::ExecuteOpen() is used. The directory is correctly set, but the requested filename does not end up in the file field. FileSel::Set() works as expected though when FileSel::ExecuteSaveAs() is used.

// Tom

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Re: FileSel::Set does not appear to work [message #16053 is a reply to message #15654]

Sun, 25 May 2008 20:39

mirek
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I am afraid it is only supposed to work with SaveAs...

Mirek

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Re: FileSel::Set does not appear to work [message #16090 is a reply to message #16053]

Tue, 27 May 2008 16:25

Tom1
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It would be of great benefit in certain applications to have it work in normal Open... situations too. Imagine a user of an application program manually working through a set of cryptically named files in alphabetical order... OK, having the previously processed file pre-selected in the dialog when opening the next would help quite a bit.

(The windows platform file dialog does this.)

Unfortunately, I could not see to the depths required to make this work in FileSel code.

// Tom

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Re: FileSel::Set does not appear to work [message #19902 is a reply to message #15654]

Fri, 30 January 2009 23:16

White_Owl
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I also believe Open mode should automatically select file set from outside of FileSel dialog...

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Re: FileSel::Set does not appear to work [message #22227 is a reply to message #15654]

Thu, 25 June 2009 22:49

dolik.rce
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Sorry for posting in this rather old thread, but I've just came across the same problem as Tom1. I believe there should be a way to preset the filename in FileSel.

I kinda expect it to work in applications. It often happens to me, that I save many similar files differing just in suffix. I believe it wouldn't hurt usability in any way, it can only help sometimes.

Or is there any problem to implement it?

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Re: FileSel::Set does not appear to work [message #22236 is a reply to message #22227]

Fri, 26 June 2009 14:18

mirek
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dolik.rce wrote on Thu, 25 June 2009 16:49

I believe Save always worked. The question is about Load...

I can add some "Preselect" field, if requested...

Mirek

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Re: FileSel::Set does not appear to work [message #22250 is a reply to message #15654]

Sat, 27 June 2009 14:04

dolik.rce
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I'm sorry for unclear formulation, SaveAs always worked perfectly. What I meant to say was that it would help when opening files differing only in suffixes.

One more example where I would use preselected filename came to my mind: Suppose I have an application which handles some data file and configuration file telling it what to do with those data. Now if user already opened configuration file, it would be a nice feature to preselect a corresponding file when opening the data. (For example based on filename of configuration file - perhaps with a check that it exist).

Idea with Preselect field sounds good to me. If you could implement it I would really aprreciate it. Just hope it's not too much work, I wouldn't want to distract you from more important things Rolling Eyes