File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

Bob Warren robertum at brturbo.com
Wed Jan 18 23:09:53 EST 2006


Great! Thanks very much Alex. I think you've just defined #2 for me! 
Just about everything you asked for is desirable. I'll keep your list, 
and when the times comes I'll try to include as much as I can. As you 
will appreciate, at the moment I need to concentrate on achieving the 
stability of #1 in its current primitive form, but as soon as I can I 
will return to the task of improving the widgets.

Please do experiment with the INI parameters and let me know whether 
they work OK on your machine.

I hope you don't mind if I post this reply to the list, as I think most 
other potential users will be interested in the features you have asked 
for.  Also, your much appreciated interest might encourage others to try 
out this first version of the widgets. OK?

Regards,
Bob


Alex Tweedly wrote:

> Bob Warren wrote:
>
>> Dear Windows XP Users (and others),
>>
>> This is a quick status report on the testing of the file and picture 
>> chooser widgets available for download at
>>
>> http://www.howsoft.com/downloads/runrev .
>>
> Hi Bob. I've started testing, but haven't yet experimented with 
> changing the .ini values. However, I do have some suggestions ....
>
> One Bug (imho) : fix what happens when user hits TAB and shift-TAB
>
> TAB should step the focus through the various controls. Currently it 
> moves focus from folder-list to file-list and then to "Cancel", but 
> although focus is on cancel, it leaves the most recent file 
> highlighted. Goes nowhere after the filter-list (Windows would 
> normally cycle back to first control). shift-TAB is apparently ignored.
>
> some suggestions (these would be almost essential for me):
>
> allow more flexible filters  (see Rev docs)
>    should at least allow, e.g.
>          *.jpg;*.jpeg JPEG files     but would be even better to allow 
> the full flexibility allowed by "answer file"
>
> allow multi-file selection (with ctrl and shift click, or shift+arrow)
>
> accept up-arrow and down-arrow keys in folder and file lists
>
> clicking on a different directory should remove the preview of the photo
>
> suggestions (these would be nice):
>
> RETURN should be equivalent to clicking OK
>      (or cancel if that's your preferred default - but there should be 
> a default).
> accept page-up and page down in folder and file lists
> accept up/down arrow in filter list
> allow "incremental search" in folder and file lists
>      (or at least initial letter selection)
> make the preview optional (it's noticeably slow on 6Mb files, esp 
> across the wifi network :-)
> allow left/right arrow to select between disks (a c d etc.)
> make the window be sizable
> allow user to change space allocation between list windows (or change 
> the space automatically ??)
>
>
>
>





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