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From: elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Standard File Requesters
Message-ID: <8106@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 15 May 89 02:10:23 GMT
References: <42700012@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <42700012@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, hummel@m.cs.uiuc.edu says:
> Allow me to finish by tossing around some features and overall goals,
> some of which have already been mentioned, that might be present in a
> "perfect" file requester:
> 	- Asynchronous directory scans, allowing a selection to be
> 	  made while still reading in a directory.

I think some of the existing requesters already do this. In fact, I'm
almost certain that the ARP requester does.

> 	- Responds to Intuition insert/eject messages.

Justin McCormick's does (at least, in its File Injector incarnation).
The main problem is that Justin's code is NOT publically available :-(
(but I can sympathize... he spent an entire summer hacking on that
file requester, after he'd already finished most of the rest of
PixMate).

> 	- Wildcards and multiple file selection where appropriate.

Hmm... how about multiple filename buckets? On the right side of the
string gadget for the filename, perhaps an up/down arrow gadget pair,
to allow you to scroll to other buckets? Sort of like in Preferences
for the printers, or the way Justin scrolls his devices when there's
more devices than buttons?

> 	- It's going to be BIG, so a shared resource (of some form,
> 	  such as those being discussed in this string) is the way to go.

Depends on your definition of BIG. Justin's does most of this already,
and is maybe 8K long (of course, to get it that small he had to
write it about 4/5ths assembler... everything has its price). 

Hmm, that does seem big enough to deserve its own library, though.
Forget the folks saying put it with Intuition stuff....

(Me? I'm using arp.library's file requester. Life's too short...).

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