use-revolution Digest, Vol 9, Issue 45

[Roger Guay]

Thanks for your reply, Richard.  Coming from you I will heed your 
suggestion that perhaps there is a better metaphor to use than the 
Finder.  Besides, it's just too difficult to do!

Thanks, Roger


On Jun 17, 2004, at 3:30 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
>   Richard Gaskin
>   Fourth World Media Corporation
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