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From: peltz@clio.las.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SFGetFile bug in Kermit?
Message-ID: <17000096@clio>
Date: 12 Mar 88 03:05:00 GMT
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Nf-From: clio.las.uiuc.edu!peltz    Mar 11 21:05:00 1988


Oh yeah, speaking of SFGetFile:

Since Inside Macintosh specifically frowns on using custom dialog boxes with
Get and PutFile, the system should support at least a few common operations.
One would be to "select folder", for instance to allow one to specify an
operation on an entire folder (such as copy, delete, backup). Another would
be to allow selecting multiple files/folders. Another, on SFPutFile, would
create a new folder.

I'm not sure I see any good way to allow the program to specify extra buttons
and other controls in those dialogs without limiting the possibility of future
changes to the system. It probably isn't too bad to have a second box come up
after the file is selected to allow the user to specify additional information
about the save or get.