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Re: Folderitem

To: REALbasic Network Users Group <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Folderitem
From: Randall Meadows <randy at not-pc dot com>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:41:10 -0400
On 8/6/02 at 3:09 PM +0200, Frank Bitterlich wrote:

I think there is no solution to that problem other that to make up your
own "open" dialog. AFAIK no other application allows you to select a
folder OR an application from within the same (standard) dialog.

There are. ResEdit does (Get File/Folder Info from the File menu, I think). I know I've run across others as well.

My program also has this problem...it allows users to perform certain actions on a bunch of files at once, and being able to select folders to recursively act on the enclosed files is of great importance to me in this program. Luckily, the workaround you note below works for me, but still....

A workaround solution would be not to let the user select the
file/folder from a dialog, but rather let them drag&drop the desired
file/folder onto your window or the like. Of course that works only for
some situations.

Exactly.  I guess this'll be a good reason to learn how to do a plug-in.

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