On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 dkp3@cornell.edu wrote:
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>
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am wondering if it's possible to make a file browser select
> _directories_ instead of files. I've been through the manual a bit and
> haven't seen anything on this. Ideally I'd constrain the user to picking
> _only_ a directory, but picking a directory at all would be nice
> (obviously I can just check if it returns a directory..).
>
> Also, can the file mask be "hard coded" into the browser? The application
> here is "where did you put this file?" and so I need to find a particular
> file in an unknown directory.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks!
>
> David
>
May be a crude idea would be to say to the user that he must select
a file and that the directory containing this file will be selected.
Because, the present filebrowser is also a directory browser except
at the moment of the file selection.
Didier
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