A Bit Much to Ask, but . . .

[Richard Gaskin]

Roger Guay wrote:

> I know this is asking a lot but here goes anyway.
> 
> In my little Rev application,  I call a "document" a field grouped with 
> a couple of buttons to save and export as the user chooses.  No problem 
> with this.  And, I know how to move this around.
> 
> What I would like to do is essentially recreate the hierarchical folder 
> environment that one typically sees in MAC OS X folders with View set to 
> "As List"  In other words I want to be able to create new folders, name 
> them move them around, put created "documents" in them, and put some 
> folders inside of  others etc.  For my twit brain this is turning out to 
> be very complicated!
> 
> Is there anyone out there that has done something like this and would be 
> willing to share it?

Yes: on Mac it's called the Finder and on Windows the Explorer. :)

But seriously, if you need to completely mirror the sometimes complex 
behaviors of those apps, would there be a downside to encouraging the 
user to use those?

If you just need a subset of behaviors reading up on these Transcript 
tokens should help get you started:

directory
folders
files
detailed folders
detailed files
create folder

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