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Re: dialog_pickfile [message #16266 is a reply to message #15915]

Fri, 09 July 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Harald Frey (hfrey@ssl.berkeley.edu) writes:

> Using the dialog_pickfile in IDL 5.1 on a UNIX platform I get an
> annoying behaviour. The long pathname like
>
> /disks/sprite/disk1/hfrey/idl/image/display/
>
> is shown in full in the left window even with the possibility to scroll
> to the left and right. The filename in the right window is only shown
> with the first 10-15 letters including the complete pathname but without
> a scrolling opportunity to the right. Therefore I have to guess which of
> the files might be the correct one because I do not really see the end
> of the filename. If you have many files in a subdirectory it takes
> several steps to find the right one.

This apparently is a Solaris problem. See the details here:

http://www.dfanning.com/idl5_info/long_filenames.html

Cheers,

David
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		dialog_pickfile By: Uli Schlegel on Thu, 17 June 1999 00:00
		Re: dialog_pickfile By: davidf on Fri, 09 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Dialog_pickfile By: R.Bauer on Fri, 03 November 2000 06:15
		Re: Dialog_pickfile By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 02 November 2000 21:02
		Re: DIALOG_PICKFILE By: Martin Schultz on Thu, 19 April 2001 09:18
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