how to pick an existing (empty) directory name (mapped in Windows to a drive letter)?

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You can map between UNCs and drive letters using the command prompt’s ”net use” or (for permanent mappings only?) the registry’s \\HKCU\Network. Should be easy enough (and fast enough) to make VW’s own directory dialog use one of those to add that info when opening.

 

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From: Ulli Wenk [[hidden email]]
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Subject: Re: [Esug-list] how to pick an existing (empty) directory name (mapped in Windows to a drive letter)?

 

Please, look again the the red-mark text!

Am 12.02.2015 um 12:41 schrieb Steven Kelly:

 Dialog requestDirectoryName: 'Choose a Directory:'

which explicitly selects a directory (including empty ones) rather than a file.

 

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Hello,

how I can use a native FolderDialog/DirectoryRequest for a directory which may be empty (we need it for selecting a subprocess-working-directory chosen by our users)?

The VW FileDialog and Win32FileDialog can only be used for not empty directories (selecting an arbitrary file and getting its directory path). The Aragon.Widget Dialog>requestDirectory let me select a directory but does not show the drive letters of the (Windows-) mapped drives. Thus, for our users (hospital nurses), it is not so easy to find a known directory.
Has anybody a solution?

 

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Dear Ulli,

... I implemented a class (Win32FolderDialog) doing all (after extending MinimalShellInterface from package "Windows Goodies").

If somebody is interested in it, too, I could publish it in the Public Repository (in an new version of  "Windows Goodies" or an extra small package).

I'm sure people would be pleased to see it appear, maybe in a fresh version of Windows Goodies with an explanatory blessing comment.  If others like it, it may in time become part of the standard version.

            Just my 0.02p
                  Niall Ross