answer files with filter

[John Craig]

Sarah Reichelt wrote:
> On 8/28/06, Martin Baxter <mb.ur at harbourhosting.co.uk> wrote:
>> Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>> > On 8/25/06, Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> The "answer file" command usually gets me thoroughly confused, but
>> >> this time, I'm not sure it is able to do what I want.
>> >>
>> >> I want to allow the user to select a text file, but it has to be a
>> >> text file with a name like "Slot45.txt". The number will vary, but it
>> >> has to start with "Slot" and have the ".txt".
>> >>
>> >> Is this possible? I can get it to limit to text files, but is it
>> >> possible to limit the available files to only text files which start
>> >> with "Slot"?
>
The following works for me on Rev 2.7.2 on Windows
answer file "choose a file" with filter "Slots,slot*.txt"
- just shows .txt files beginning with 'slot' (case insensitive)

However, the same code using Rev 2.6.1 on Linux does not work - even 
using with filter "JPG,*.jpg"
The whole filter string is inserted into the file selection dialog, 
matching nothing.

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