It should be doable. A few applications offer this kind of filtering. Photoshop comes to mind. Not sure why it's not working for you, though, sorry.
-Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://www.nemesys-soft.com/ Logiciels Nemesys Software laur...@nemesys-soft.com On Aug 26, 2010, at 17:00, k...@highrolls.net wrote: > I beg to differ with you. This is not a hack as the methods to achieve this > result all all public Cocoa api's. > > Our market (machine embroidery) realizes 29 file types. A customer may have a > machine that recognizes 3 or 4 of these. Giving them the ability to filter > file types from an open panel is quite reasonable and has nothing to do with > their preference of Mac over Windows. > > Check this out and comment please http://highrolls.net/open_filter.png > > -koko > > > On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Thomas Davie wrote: > >> >> On 26 Aug 2010, at 18:41, k...@highrolls.net wrote: >> >>> I have an accessory view in an NSOpenPanel which contains a NSComboBox. The >>> combo box is a list of file extensions. When the user selects an entry the >>> action method calls --setAllowedFileTypes. All these mechanics work >>> properly. The issue: The open panel does not respond to the new allowed >>> file types. >>> >>> What I am trying to accomplish is a dynamic filter as we see in a Windows >>> open file dialog. >>> >>> Am I barking up the wrong or impossible tree here? >> >> Simple solution – don't try to hack Mac OS to be windows. Different UIs are >> different, let them be so, you users are using macs for a reason. >> >> Bob _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
