| Re: Dialog box for creating a directory [message #23261] |
Fri, 19 January 2001 06:40  |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Roy Edgar Hansen (Roy-Edgar.Hansen@ffi.no) writes:
> Does such a thing exist?
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> I want a dialog box such as dialog_pickfile or FSC_fileselect (from
> David Fanning)
> to pop up during my processing for creating a new directory where all
> the files from
> processing should be stored. It also would be nice if there was the
> possibility to show
> the directory structure... (such as in the above mentioned).
Humm. You must not be using Windows. :-)
I certainly can *create* a new directory or folder from
DIALOG_PICKFILE. But I suspect that is not exactly what
you want to do. You probably want to create it directly
from you program. Having a dialog "pop up" pre-supposes
you are going to allow some initiative and accept
direction from the user. That's often what we *say*
we want, while writing programs that specifically
disallow it. :-)
> I know this is not far from a number of the examples at
> www.dfanning.com,
> but if someone has done exactly this (or knows how to) already....
If you want to create a directory (as opposed to having
the user create a directory), then in IDL 5.4 you can
use the FILE_MKDIR procedure. On earlier versions of
IDL I think you will have to spawn an operating system
command to do it.
Cheers,
David
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| Re: Dialog box for creating a directory [message #23415 is a reply to message #23261] |
Mon, 22 January 2001 12:53  |
Roy E Hansen
Messages: 2
Registered: January 2001
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> Humm. You must not be using Windows. :-)
>
> I certainly can *create* a new directory or folder from
> DIALOG_PICKFILE. But I suspect that is not exactly what
> you want to do. You probably want to create it directly
> from you program. Having a dialog "pop up" pre-supposes
> you are going to allow some initiative and accept
> direction from the user. That's often what we *say*
> we want, while writing programs that specifically
> disallow it. :-)
Well, I use Windows and I know "the user" can create directories
with dialog_pickfile. However, "the user" should only create one
directory, not interact with files at all. So the "File names" and
"Files of type" fields are of no use to me, and especially not if
"the user" enters something there.
> If you want to create a directory (as opposed to having
> the user create a directory), then in IDL 5.4 you can
> use the FILE_MKDIR procedure. On earlier versions of
> IDL I think you will have to spawn an operating system
> command to do it.
That is probably what I end up doing. I'll automaticly choose
directory names and create directories.
BTW, "the user" and I is the same guy.
Thanks for the help.
-Roy
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