Re: FileName Widget
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg114620] Re: FileName Widget
- From: Patrick Scheibe <pscheibe at trm.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:31:48 -0500 (EST)
Hi, I don't understand why don't you just have one look at the documentation of the functions. You would have seen that it is simply something like SystemDialogInput["FileOpen", "/tmp"] or maybe SystemDialogInput["FileOpen", "C:\\"] when you're working on windoze. Cheers Patrick On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 06:03 -0500, Kevin J. McCann wrote: > Is there a way with FileNameSetter or the others to specify the initial > search directory? > > Kevin > > On 12/8/2010 6:41 AM, John Fultz wrote: > > And SystemDialogInput[] does return the file, not open it. "FileOpen" refers to > > the style of the file-picking dialog. Open-style dialogs have different > > properties than Save-style dialogs. Open-style dialogs allow you to pick more > > than one file and require you to choose existing files. Save-style dialogs warn > > you if you've targeted an existing file (which would potentially be > > overwritten). And there's some different labeling, too. > > > > As I believe somebody else already mentioned, FileNameSetter[] does this, too. > > The difference between SystemDialogInput and FileNameSetter is that > > FileNameSetter is intended to be used in a Dynamic interface for keeping a > > Dynamic variable up to date (you can think of it as equivalent to the '...' > > button you sometimes see next to an input field for setting filenames in some > > dialog boxes), while SystemDialogInput requests the filename immediately and > > stops execution of your input until the name is returned. SystemDialogInput is > > more appropriate for any procedural bit of code. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > John Fultz > > jfultz at wolfram.com > > User Interface Group > > Wolfram Research, Inc. > > > > > > On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 06:49:47 -0500 (EST), Murray Eisenberg wrote: > >> The OP asked, I believe, for return of the file name, _not_ opening a > >> file. > >> > >> On 12/5/2010 9:48 PM, Patrick Scheibe wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> what about > >>> > >>> SystemDialogInput["FileOpen"] > >>> > >>> ? > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> Patrick > >>> > >>> On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 06:13 -0500, leigh pascoe wrote: > >>>> Has anybody written a widget to find and return file names. For > >>>> example > >>>> if I want to import an image or data file into mathematica, or assign > >>>> a > >>>> file name to a $Variable, it would be very convenient to have a > >>>> function > >>>> key that launched a windows style widget that permitted searching > >>>> through directories (starting with My Computer or C:) and selecting > >>>> the > >>>> appropriate file. The full path of the selected file would then be > >>>> inserted at the cursor. > >>>> > >>>> That seems such an obvious tool that it must exist already, but I > >>>> haven't seen reference to one anywhere. Anybody? > >>>> > >>>> LP > > > > > > >