Rev file selection in MC_IDE

[Wilhelm Sanke]

There is not much exchange of information on the Metacard list at 
present, quite contrary to what is happening on the two other runrev 
lists. The last digest was sent on Aug 9.

My post "Resumed: MC IDE v2.6b7 package" of 10 days ago (Sun Aug 8) did 
not elicit any responses so far. There is of course no kind of urgency 
involved, we have enough time at hand to solve certain issues and answer 
questions. I just wanted to re-attract your attention to the 
proposals/questions contained in post "Resumed.....".-

An additional question:

In the Rev IDE the "open file dialog" (on Windows) has a separate option 
to display all Metacard files, however such an option is missing in the 
MC_IDE for Revolution files.
As - for various reasons - I usually have a mixture of Rev and MC files 
in my directories I have for quite some time added such an Revolution 
option in stack "mctools". Moreover, the "All Files" option, which you 
at present need to choose Rev stacks, displays any kind of files, which 
makes it sometimes very hard to find the Rev stacks among the multitude 
of text, image, zip-files etc.
 
To add a rev file option to the MC_IDE only one line of button "File" of 
group "Metacard Menu Bar" has to be changed, namely in "case 'open'" the 
line following
"case 'Win32'" to

"put "MetaCard Stacks" & cr & "*.mc" & cr & "Revolution Stacks" & cr & 
"*.rev" & cr & "All Files" & cr & "*.*" into filterstring"

Do you think this would be a valuable enough change or should such a 
change better be left to individual initiative? Of course only Windows 
user would be affected, and my impression is that most members of the 
Metacard list are Mac users.

Anyway, best regards

Wilhelm Sanke
http://www.sanke.org