[Pharo-users] beginner question - how to get a fully qualified filename from a dialog
I have a method:
openSimulationFile
inFile := (StandardFileStream fileNamed:
'/Users/amaloney/Squeak/30shoes.txt') ascii
I want to replace the hard coded fully qualified filename with the result of
a file browser dialog.
I've done some Googling and poked around in the system browser and I find
that if I enter (in a playground)
UIManager default chooseDirectory and inspect-it I get: a FileReference
(/Users/amaloney/Squeak)
and if I try UIManager default chooseFileMatching: #( '*.txt' ) I get: a
ByteString ('Readme.txt').
It seems that UIManager chooseDirectory is the method I should start
exploring (since it returns a FileReference object) but the method is:
chooseDirectory
Let the user choose a directory
^self chooseDirectoryFrom: FileSystem workingDirectory
and when I look at chooseDirectoryFrom: I get
chooseDirectoryFrom: dir
Let the user choose a directory
^self chooseDirectory: nil from: dir
so I look at chooseDirectory: from:
and I get:
chooseDirectory: label from: dir
Let the user choose a directory
^self subclassResponsibility
Which doesn't help so I dig around in the docs some more and find out that
the green down arrow is clickable.
When I click it and choose MorphicUlManager#chooseDirectory:from:
the method definition is:
chooseDirectory: label from: dir
Answer the user choice of a directory.
| modalMorph realLabel |
realLabel := label ifNil: ['Choose Directory' translated].
(ProvideAnswerNotification signal: realLabel) ifNotNil: [:answer |
^answer ].
modalMorph := self modalMorph.
^modalMorph theme
chooseDirectoryIn: modalMorph
title: realLabel
path: (dir ifNotNil: [dir fullName])
The problem is that I cannot find a chooseDirectoryIn:title:path: method.
I wrote this all out hoping someone can tell me where I chose the wrong
rabbit hole and can point me to instructions on how to choose the correct
rabbit hole. ;-) (Also, if there is a short answer i.e. use this
objectmethod, I'd appreciate that as well.)
Thanks,
Mike
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Re: [Pharo-users] beginner question - how to get a fully qualified filename from a dialog
Hi,
maybe instead of UIManager you could look on UITheme.
For example the following code:
Smalltalk ui theme
chooseFullFileNameIn: World
title: 'Select file to open'
extensions: nil
path:
(myActualFilePath isNil
ifTrue: [ myActualFilePath ]
ifFalse: [ FileSystem workingDirectory ])
preview: nil
This will open a dialog with Select file to open in title, it will
accept file of every extension and the path will begin at
myActualFilePath or into the working directory if the actual file path
is nil.
On 12 May 2015 at 18:00, amaloney amalo...@earthlink.net wrote:
I have a method:
openSimulationFile
inFile := (StandardFileStream fileNamed:
'/Users/amaloney/Squeak/30shoes.txt') ascii
I want to replace the hard coded fully qualified filename with the result of
a file browser dialog.
I've done some Googling and poked around in the system browser and I find
that if I enter (in a playground)
UIManager default chooseDirectory and inspect-it I get: a FileReference
(/Users/amaloney/Squeak)
and if I try UIManager default chooseFileMatching: #( '*.txt' ) I get: a
ByteString ('Readme.txt').
It seems that UIManager chooseDirectory is the method I should start
exploring (since it returns a FileReference object) but the method is:
chooseDirectory
Let the user choose a directory
^self chooseDirectoryFrom: FileSystem workingDirectory
and when I look at chooseDirectoryFrom: I get
chooseDirectoryFrom: dir
Let the user choose a directory
^self chooseDirectory: nil from: dir
so I look at chooseDirectory: from:
and I get:
chooseDirectory: label from: dir
Let the user choose a directory
^self subclassResponsibility
Which doesn't help so I dig around in the docs some more and find out that
the green down arrow is clickable.
When I click it and choose MorphicUlManager#chooseDirectory:from:
the method definition is:
chooseDirectory: label from: dir
Answer the user choice of a directory.
| modalMorph realLabel |
realLabel := label ifNil: ['Choose Directory' translated].
(ProvideAnswerNotification signal: realLabel) ifNotNil: [:answer |
^answer ].
modalMorph := self modalMorph.
^modalMorph theme
chooseDirectoryIn: modalMorph
title: realLabel
path: (dir ifNotNil: [dir fullName])
The problem is that I cannot find a chooseDirectoryIn:title:path: method.
I wrote this all out hoping someone can tell me where I chose the wrong
rabbit hole and can point me to instructions on how to choose the correct
rabbit hole. ;-) (Also, if there is a short answer i.e. use this
objectmethod, I'd appreciate that as well.)
Thanks,
Mike
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Cheers
Cyril Ferlicot
Re: [Pharo-users] beginner question - how to get a fully qualified filename from a dialog
Thank you for that Cyril; it's just what I need. Cheers! -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/beginner-question-how-to-get-a-fully-qualified-filename-from-a-dialog-tp4826037p4826093.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
