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

Posted by Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 on Jul 15, 2016; 11:19am
URL: https://forum.world.st/ANN-file-dialog-replacement-experiment-tp4900465p4906696.html

On 14 Jul 2016, at 23:49, Peter Uhnák <[hidden email]> wrote:

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.

I had another look. Yes, this is cool.

If you truncate, you could put the full, non truncated path in a pop over, that would be a cheap way to solve that problem, no ? In any case, in my testing there was enough space.

Maybe also add a trailing / to indicate that it represents the directory and not the selection ?

Also when I tested it, using

FDOpenFileDialog new openModal.

the path is initially blank, it only fills when I start clicking.

BTW, could it be that FDMorphicUIManager becomes default automatically ?

And related to github filetree, what is the proper way to get a new version once you loaded the code ?

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

<zenity.png>

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