Smalltalk - Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] file dialog replacement experiment

Smalltalk › Pharo › Pharo Smalltalk Users

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] file dialog replacement experiment

Posted by Peter Uhnak on Jul 14, 2016; 9:09pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/ANN-file-dialog-replacement-experiment-tp4900465p4906676.html

Hi Sven,

What I am missing in the UI is some indication of the path that leads to the current selected file. Right now, I am wondering where exactly I am, I feel a bit lost (this is of course from the technical standpoint of a path in a tree). This could be done with a popup, a trail, a pop-over.

I've added this couple of days ago (as I was missing this too), I just forgot to push the update to github (one downside compared to smalltalkhub :)).

The only problem is that the image directory name is usually really long (the longest I have is 110 characters as it includes the build's name), so it doesn't exactly fit in.

There is some shortening happening based on the window's width but it's not perfect.

What I like is what zenity does (clickable path)… but it automatically widens the window

Peter

We should have some more discussions about this, it could make a great addition to Pharo.

Sven

> On 11 Jun 2016, at 02:45, Peter Uhnák <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
> <file-dialog-3.png>

>
> 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.
>
> More info and docs on GitHub https://github.com/peteruhnak/file-dialog
>
> Any comments/feedback/bug reports is appreciated.
>
> Peter