Re: Custom Ask File Dialogs

2015-07-12 Thread Bob Warren
Hi Ray, The chooser widgets at the following link are certainly customizable: http://www.howsoft.com/runrev/runrev_stacks_index.htm However, the coding of these widgets is quite complex, and when it is not your own, making alterations and extensions is not always that easy. It might be worth

Re: Custom Ask File Dialogs

2015-07-11 Thread Ray
These replies are kind of what I thought the case was. I'm going to put this task on hold until Livecode 8 stable at which time I'd like to look into Livecode Builder. Thanks all! On 7/11/15 3:15 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On July 11, 2015 8:36:05 AM CDT, Richard Gaskin wrote: For the her

Re: Custom Ask File Dialogs

2015-07-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On July 11, 2015 8:36:05 AM CDT, Richard Gaskin wrote: >For the here-and-now, when I need additional options for special file >handling I'll usually just use a sequence of two dialogs: > >1. answer file to pick the file >2. Display the selected file in a second custom modal that provides the ot

Re: Custom Ask File Dialogs

2015-07-11 Thread Roger Eller
On Jul 11, 2015 9:36 AM, "Richard Gaskin" wrote: > > For the "answer file" command LiveCode uses the OS-provided dialog on all platforms. > > ... and their custom dialog looks especially bad on OS X or Windows where it was never designed to be used. > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Syste

Re: Custom Ask File Dialogs

2015-07-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ray wrote: > Does anybody know of a way to duplicate Livecode's "Ask File" dialog > window and customize it? I suppose I could build up my own Ask File > dialog window from scratch but it would be a lot of work and I'm not > sure how I would include things like Favorites and the many different >

Re: Custom Ask File Dialogs

2015-07-11 Thread Ray
I need to correct my own post. I meant to say I set the systemFileSelector to "false" in order to use Livecode's built-in file selector, but it's the much friendlier "system" file selector, not Livecode's built-in file selector, that I'm trying to duplicate and customize. Sounds like a pretty