On 06/21/2012 02:01 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richard Gaskin <ambassador@...> writes:
If any of you are using Linux it would be helpful to know which distro
and version, which desktop environment, and whether using the "answer
file" command shows hidden files in its listing.
After caffeine, I realize that the answer file dialog does indeed invoke the
File Manager, and so you're quite correct in that the File Manager preferences
should be respected. It is working as designed on Fedora 16/xfce spin, where the
hidden files are not shown if I disable them from the File Manager. Getting "the
files" does give the entire list, including the hidden files. So it appears that
Ubuntu is at fault here.
Like so many other things Linux, it may be a little more complicated
than that. Under KDE (on my system) the file selector used by Livecode
is not the default KDE one. Rather, it's the GTK one, which makes sense
and (some) other GTK apps, such as AbiWord use it as well. There is no
way I find to toggle the display of hidden files although they can be
found by toggling the search bar in the dialog and typing ".". I
installed Thunar and setting its prefs to display hidden files has no
effect on this behavior.
The KDE file selector can be evoked from the shell, with arguments and
could be offered to KDE users of Livecode apps as a preference. ('if
there is a file "/usr/bin/kdialog" then give them a choice') This dialog
has a setting to toggle hidden files it operated independently of
Dolphin's settings, in my experiments. The shell call
'put shell("kdialog --getopenfilename .")'
returns three lines of sausage making and a fourth line that is the file
selected - again, on my system.
More info on 'kdialog' is here:
<http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Shell_Scripting_with_KDE_Dialogs#File_Selection_Dialogs>
It appears you can use many if not all these available dialogs within
Livecode using shell(), including the password dialog which returns the
value entered to Livecode. (This is the only other one I tried :D). The
only thing to keep in mind would be that the dialogs will lock up your
app until they are dismissed because of the blocking nature of the
shell() function.
Warren
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