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Re: Displaying a list of filenames [message #78896 is a reply to message #78895]

Tue, 03 January 2012 07:11

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Percy Pugwash writes:

> I would like to display a list of filenames in an widget application.
> I have so far been unable to find a satisfactory way of doing this,
> since I would like the user to be able to:
>
> 1) Select one or several of the filenames in the list
> 2) View the whole filepath, right-aligned so that the name at the end
> is clear
>
> I can't seem to right-align a list widget, and a text widget won't let
> me select an item in the list in a straightforward way. I think I can
> make it work with a table widget, but that seems to have irritating
> and unnecessary scroll bars.
>
> Does anyone have a solution?

My solution, after years of frustration trying to do just
this, was to retreat to a smarter version of Dialog_Pickfile,
which can remember the directory (and file, if I want) that
I previously selected. It's made my life easier and I no
longer wake up in terror at night thinking about table widgets. :-)

http://www.idlcoyote.com/idldoc/cg/cgpickfile.html

Cheers,

David

P.S. Set the MULTIPLE keyword if you want to select
multiple files.

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: Displaying a list of filenames By: Vincent Sarago on Tue, 03 January 2012 10:02
		Re: Displaying a list of filenames By: Percy Pugwash on Tue, 03 January 2012 09:03
		Re: Displaying a list of filenames By: David Fanning on Tue, 03 January 2012 08:25
		Re: Displaying a list of filenames By: Doug Edmundson on Tue, 03 January 2012 08:20
		Re: Displaying a list of filenames By: Percy Pugwash on Tue, 03 January 2012 07:45
		Re: Displaying a list of filenames By: David Fanning on Tue, 03 January 2012 07:11

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