On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 19:25 -0400, muppet wrote:
> On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 07:03 PM, James M. Cape wrote:
>
> > The code would be much cleaner, but I'm not sure how useful random
> > file buttons are in real applications.
>
> personally, having written several in-house applications which are
> front-ends for processing that works on data files supplied by the
> user, such a button would be very handy, especially if you could drag
> and drop files onto it.
The more I think about it, the more I think that the perfect widget
would be a ComboBox for the OPEN and SELECT_FOLDER, and a ComboBoxEntry
for SAVE and CREATE_FOLDER. IOW, never mind making it a button, I was
just thinking out loud.
DnD, cut, copy, and paste should all work automatically, of course :-).
--
Peace,
Jim Cape
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