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[ANN] file dialog replacement experiment

Posted by Peter Uhnak on Jun 11, 2016; 12:08am
URL: https://forum.world.st/ANN-file-dialog-replacement-experiment-tp4900465.html

Hi,

last week I stitched together a simple file dialog replacement and today I managed to somewhat finish it.

There is still a lot to be desired, but right now it supports things that were the most pain for me:

* list of most common places (home, root, image directory, temp)

* custom bookmarks by dragging folders from file-pane to bookmark-pane

* toggle hidden files (right-click on file listing)

* preset file name

* filtering files by extensions or patterns and toggling between filters

* synchronous and asynchronous mode

You can use it independently of Pharo's native dialogs

FDOpenFileDialog new

extensionFilters:

{'STON files' -> #(ston).

'All files' -> #()};

defaultFolder: FileLocator imageDirectory asFileReference;

openModal

Or if you feel brave, I have an extended UIManager that will use this…, and then you can use regular manager commands

UIManager default chooseFileMatching: #('*.ston')

but you can always go back

FDMorphicUIManager new beDefault. "use new dialogs"

MorphicUIManager new beDefault. "use old dialogs"

and of course the installation itself (I'll add it to catalog soon after I find a way to autogenerate configurations from git tags)

Metacello new

baseline: 'FileDialog';

repository: 'github://peteruhnak/file-dialog/repository';

load.

Any comments/feedback/bug reports is appreciated.

Peter