simple file selector

Vexator · Post by **Vexator** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:32 am

i need an replacement for the standard wxfiledialog.. i actually just want a file box, open/save and cancel buttons and some extra options (it's for loading texture files, so i need options for the desired filtering mode, resolution etc). my questions are.. what kind of window is the box which lists all the files in wxfiledialog? it doesn't seem to be an ordinary wxlistbox as it has several columns and displays the icons of the files. the source says that it was of type "wxFileCtrl", but i can't find any info about that in the api. and how can i get the files located in a directory? into an array e.g.

thx

leio · Post by **leio** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:31 pm

I don't know about your question, but it would be great to see extra widgets in a file dialog possible.
For example GtkFileChooser (that is used in wxGTK if the gtk+ library is 2.4 or newer) can do custom widgets below the file selection stuff nicely, it can also have the file selection quite minimalistic, I believe, with it being possible to be expanded. Would be great to be able to do something like that with wxFileDialog. Any idea how other platforms would fare in respect of this idea?

Cursor · Post by **Cursor** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:14 pm

If you want to extand the wxFileDialog, you can integrate it, as all other windows, as a child of other window (wxPanel, wxDialog). You must pass parent adress (in place of NULL). Working fine with sizers and wxFileDialog (as child) you can extand create a file dialog with all item you want (file preview, extended infos ...)

arkanes · Post by **arkanes** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:48 pm

Windows allows customization of the standard file selector but it's a pain and involves wierdness with dialog templates. I have serious doubts that we could support it in any reasonable way in wxWidgets. AFAIK, OS X doesn't permit customization of the stock selector. What cursor is talking about is probably wxGenericFileDialog.

number4 · Post by **number4** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:51 pm

Working fine with sizers and wxFileDialog (as child) you can extand create a file dialog with all item you want (file preview, extended infos ...)

Is this correct? As far as I could tell it will be modal and appear before it's parent if treated this way. Can you share example code? Also, what OS?

ABX · Post by **ABX** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:20 pm

arkanes wrote:Windows allows customization of the standard file selector but it's a pain and involves wierdness with dialog templates. I have serious doubts that we could support it in any reasonable way in wxWidgets. AFAIK, OS X doesn't permit customization of the stock selector. What cursor is talking about is probably wxGenericFileDialog.

Patches for Mac and MSW customization were just posted to patch tracker, see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=309863 and http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=309863 . The more confirmations in patch tracker that it is of good (ie. stable, usefull and well designed) quality, the more chances that it will be applied in the future

Regards, ABX

leio · Post by **leio** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:16 am

ABX wrote:Patches for Mac and MSW customization were just posted to patch tracker, see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=309863 and http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=309863 . The more confirmations in patch tracker that it is of good (ie. stable, usefull and well designed) quality, the more chances that it will be applied in the future

It's very platform dependant there.
I'd like to see something more of the line that you can add a sizer or panel to the bottom of the dialog and interact with that. It's a good sign that Carbon and win32 support it in some way in addition to gtk+ (which supports a custom widget being added to the bottom and an optional preview pane on the right too). I believe some discussion needs to be done on wx-dev about the API, that should be platform independant.