Re: XForms: Using fselector for other than files

Gerald Gryschuk (ggryschuk@scf.sk.ca)
Tue, 14 Jul 1998 10:49:10 -0600

# To subscribers of the xforms list from Gerald Gryschuk <ggryschuk@scf.sk.ca> :

Steve Lamont wrote:
>
> # To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :
>
> > I was wondering if it was possible to use the fselector object to
> > display and let the user choose from a list other than files? ..
>
> Basically, not without a lot of kluging that would be difficult to
> maintain. You might be able to supplant the XForms function
> fl_get_dirlist() with your own but you'd then be unable to use the
> fselector for groveling through files.
>
> Why not just use a browser object? I've written my own "tree browser"
> to pick directories rather than files and it was pretty easy to
> implement. The most complicated part of a browser is arranging the
> data structure appropriately (and that's not all that difficult).
>
> spl

Ok. The browser was my second choice I just thought there might be
something I was missing.

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Gerald Gryschuk(ggryschuk@scf.sk.ca)
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