is LCs answer folder state of the art?

[Mike Bonner]

On windows, only folders show.

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi Tiemo,
>
> I'm not sure which OS you're looking at (or which version of LC).
>
> On MacOS, I'm not seeing the behaviour you describe: for me, "answer
> folder" brings up a file selector and as I navigate, I see all the contents
> of folders as normal, with all the files greyed out, so that only folders
> can be selected - which would seem to be the expected behaviour.
>
> I'm currently working on LC 8.1.3, but I think this is the behaviour I
> usually see. But I'm usually working on Mac, so not sure what happens on
> Windows or Linux.
>
> Ben
>
> On 13/03/2017 14:50, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> It sounds like an OS thing. It isn't often that users are asked to select
>> a folder instead of a file. You can try ask file instead.
>>
>> Bob S
>>
>>
>> On Mar 13, 2017, at 07:20 , Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> the user shall select a folder, which includes certain files. When using
>>> "answer folder" the LiveCode dialog lets select the folder and returns
>>> the
>>> path, but without showing it's content, while navigating. That puzzles
>>> sometimes my customers, because it looks like the folder is empty and it
>>> might not be the correct folder.
>>>
>>> I am  not sure, if this behavior of the answer dialog is "standard" at
>>> other
>>> programs and it just looks strange to me, or if there is another
>>> approach to
>>> let the user select a folder while showing it's content? I could
>>> workaround
>>> with "answer file", but that could puzzle again the user, because he
>>> can't
>>> select a folder and must select a file to return from the dialog.
>>>
>>> How is this UI issue handled correctly?
>>>
>>> Tiemo
>>>
>>
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