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Subject: Re: SFGetFolder
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Date: 31 Oct 89 20:40:22 GMT
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From article <32277@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, by oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster):
> ...you need to
> let the user select the entire drive on HFS volumes.  The latter
> requirement makes it hard to just point at a folder in SFGetFile() and say
> "that's the one", since drivers aren't listable in the scrollbale part of
> SFGetFile().

StuffIt allows you to select entire volumes by making sure nothing is selected
in the file list. I suppose this is done by scrolling to the bottom of the
list and clicking the blank space at the bottom. This is not intuitive, though.

Maybe it's time someone reqqrote Standard File and released the code to the PD.

(Or maybe we should just wait for System 8.0, which may (or may not) unify the
Desktop metaphor and Standard File.)
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