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dialog_pickfile [message #24477]

Wed, 04 April 2001 10:41

Pavel A. Romashkin
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Registered: November 2000

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Is it a Mac thing that the FILE keyword is ignored in DIALOG_PICKFILE?

temp = dialog_pickfile(file='first_guess.txt')

results in "all files" mask and no initial selection. Of course,
"first_guess.txt" exists in the directory of interest.

Pavel

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Re: dialog_pickfile [message #24574 is a reply to message #24477]

Wed, 04 April 2001 12:17

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Pavel A. Romashkin (pavel.romashkin@noaa.gov) writes:

> Is it a Mac thing that the FILE keyword is ignored in DIALOG_PICKFILE?
>
> temp = dialog_pickfile(file='first_guess.txt')
>
> results in "all files" mask and no initial selection. Of course,
> "first_guess.txt" exists in the directory of interest.

Must be. I've never noticed it not working anywhere else,
even VMS. :-)

Cheers,

David

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Re: dialog_pickfile [message #24654 is a reply to message #24477]

Mon, 09 April 2001 15:29

thierry[1]
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Registered: March 2001

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In article <3ACB5CAB.C984FA8E@noaa.gov>, "Pavel A. Romashkin"
<pavel.romashkin@noaa.gov> wrote:

> Is it a Mac thing that the FILE keyword is ignored in DIALOG_PICKFILE?
>
> temp = dialog_pickfile(file='first_guess.txt')
>
> results in "all files" mask and no initial selection. Of course,
> "first_guess.txt" exists in the directory of interest.
>
> Pavel

Hi Pavel,

It is indeed a Mac thing that the file keyword is ignored in
dialog_pickfile when /write is not specified. This is because the standard
Mac open dialog does not have an actual field for type ahead searching
like the other platforms (and Mac OS X for that matter).

If you want to limit the display to only that file use the filter keyword:

temp = dialog_pickfile(filter='first_guess.txt')

this will set the value of the filter to first_guess.txt and will hide all
other files.

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