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Re: FileSel bug when displaying Han characters [message #15022 is a reply to message #15014]

Wed, 26 March 2008 10:23

mirek
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[quote title=cbpporter wrote on Tue, 25 March 2008 18:22]

luzr wrote on Mon, 24 March 2008 15:29

cbpporter wrote on Mon, 24 March 2008 09:07

Depends what you expect Smile

U++ is BSD license, means you can do whatever you want. Accepting patch into the "main tree" is completely different issue Wink

Well I don't expect anything, but it would be nice if it were included, since I consider it a nice improvement and I really want my apps to look native (I guess you already figured that out by the number of visual bugs I commented upon). So following that idea, I kept any unnecessary modification which I would have done out, and practically only added some extra buttons, modified a function or two and an extra layout.

It works fine, but it does have some limitations. For example, .lnk files are not read and displayed as explorer would, Desktop link does not display all items on you desktop, only those which are physically present in you directory (explorer would pull those links from multiple dirs), and most importantly, network browsing doesn't work.

I'll reinstall Linux and emulate Gtk look next.

Are you aware than in Vista, it looks different again?

What I want to say, yes, let us make it as familiar as possible, fix all issues and perhaps add something to make it better. But I would like to find some middle ground, having single layout for all XP/Vista/Gtk.

And yes, network browsing is a major problem. I have even started solving this (in Win32), but abandoned for the lack of time&energy. Anyway, preliminary support is already in Core.

The main problem with current FileSel code and network browing is that network browsing abandons the concept of "path" - you are just going through some nodes. This makes it a little bit difficult to e.g. serialize the current position of FileSel...

So basically, I ended at this. Anyway, further thinking was that perhaps we could emulate the path there, just introduce some arbitrary format to express network nodes. Something like
"::Network places::The Whole Network::Microsoft Windows::My Group::Server". The only problem is that entering Server you get "regular path" again like: \\server\share_c and the question is what is to happen if you press "Dir up" button here....

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