OpenEuphoria

Re: But What About the File Chooser?

• Posted by euphoriCK <euphoric at cklester.com> Nov 05, 2003
• 625 views

Irv Mullins wrote:

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>On Tuesday 04 November 2003 05:32 pm, you wrote:
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>>Irv Mullins wrote
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>>>I am writing a little Personal Info Manager in Euphoria / GTK.
>>>It uses a notebook with (at present) two pages, page 1 contains a
>>>daily schedule (a list control), page 2 contains another list control with
>>>contacts (name, addr, phone...). There will probably be more pages and
>>>lists later.
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>>>Using Aku's idea, I created a single 'generic' include to manage all the
>>>lists, 190 lines.
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>>This is all very exciting, but what about that file chooser? :D
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>I think you should re-think the advisability of writing anything that runs 
>in console mode, whether for DOS or Linux.  
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>DOS is dead, and the few people who enjoy using console programs on Linux 
>probably will resent anything as 'futuristic' as a file chooser. They 
>generally prefer typing -options on the command line.
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Irv! How could you?!?!

Anyway, for my initial interface, I wanted something simple that anyone 
(read: "I") could use quickly and easily. The program I'm writing should 
port easily to other UIs.

So, you're sayin' I gotta do it on my own?