Filtering with more than 4 types (OSX)

[Thierry Arbellot]

Smart workaround, but what if the user want to navigate to another 
directory within the file selector ?

Thierry.

Le Wednesday, 28 Jan 2004, à 14:18 Europe/Paris, Jan Decroos a écrit :

>> From: Thierry Arbellot <thierry.arbellot at wanadoo.fr>
>> Subject: Re: Filtering with more than 4 types (OSX)
>> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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>> Hi dreamer,
>>
>> Just for information, if I remember well, MacOS limits the filtering 
>> up
>> to 4 types.
>> A custom proc filter is needed to filter more than 4 types.
>>
>> But sorry, I don't know how to do simply in Rev.
>> The only idea I have is to write an external that will call the MacOS
>> file selector with a custom file proc according to your need.
>>
>> Regards.
>> Thierry.
>
> Couldn't you solve this by :
> - create (before the answer file ...) a temporary invisible directory 
> (starting
> with a '.', like ".myTmpDir"),
> - move all files you don't want to see to that directory,
> - show the answer,
> - restore the files from that hidden directory back and
> - remove the hidden directory ?
>
> It's not nice, but this should work.
>
> Regards,
> Jan
>
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