Image File Picker

[Stephen Barncard]

Or one could roll their own Ask Dialog in Rev... which would require 
a recursive "directory walker" handler.

These can be designed for remote or local directories.

Several approaches and some examples are in the list archives. I've 
seen a few that came close to working and looking like system 
dialogs. Another possibility that opens up when you make your own is 
that the listing could be a tree with disclosure triangles.


>Jesse Sng wrote:
>
>>Going back to my original question - none of this works when you 
>>use the "ask file command to get the user to specify a file.
>>
>>Does anybody have a stack or a solution where you can ask the user 
>>to specify a file and then be able to preview all the OS X graphics 
>>files that can be previewed from inside the file dialog window?
>
>Rev just calls the operating system to display its standard file 
>dialog. If the OS doesn't support previews in that dialog, there 
>isn't much you can do. That's why it works automatically in Leopard 
>(where this feature was added) but not in Tiger. It works in Windows 
>if the user sets the view to "thumbnail", but of course the 
>developer has no control over that.
>
>I suppose one could write an external to do it.
>
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