Hi Tiemo,
I'm not sure which OS you're looking at (or which version of LC).
On MacOS, I'm not seeing the behaviour you describe: for me, "answer folder"
brings up a file selector and as I navigate, I see all the contents of folders
as normal, with all the files greyed out, so that only folders can be selected
- which would seem to be the expected behaviour.
I'm currently working on LC 8.1.3, but I think this is the behaviour I usually
see. But I'm usually working on Mac, so not sure what happens on Windows or Linux.
Ben
On 13/03/2017 14:50, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
It sounds like an OS thing. It isn't often that users are asked to select a
folder instead of a file. You can try ask file instead.
Bob S
On Mar 13, 2017, at 07:20 , Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
the user shall select a folder, which includes certain files. When using
"answer folder" the LiveCode dialog lets select the folder and returns the
path, but without showing it's content, while navigating. That puzzles
sometimes my customers, because it looks like the folder is empty and it
might not be the correct folder.
I am not sure, if this behavior of the answer dialog is "standard" at other
programs and it just looks strange to me, or if there is another approach to
let the user select a folder while showing it's content? I could workaround
with "answer file", but that could puzzle again the user, because he can't
select a folder and must select a file to return from the dialog.
How is this UI issue handled correctly?
Tiemo
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