Dough! Sorry forgot to mention Win2K...didn't test on XP...sorry! MD = Macromedia Director :) although I must admit that "embedding it into the Managing Director" sounds better...lol
Sorry..what I meant was like you can embed for example the MS Browser activeX control in Director...if you could have a "FileBrowsing Xtra" that displays on the stage/Miaw rather than popping up you would have a quite powerful tool for developing more advanced apps... I mean...something like that can be achieved using the TreeView activeX or cXtraTreeView and populating the tree recursively with the files and folders but things like specific program/file icons, thumbnails etc would be a real pain to code when all that is already built into the operating system. Well...maybe I'm talking crap here...the whole reason for my post was that I have few apps where the user has to browse quite often through folders with images and the "thumbnail view" is the quickest way...I've built few "folder images browsers" but there are all way too slow... Anyway...sorry for the confusion and thanks for pointing me to WinXP, my main machine died on me before Christmas so I'm on the old one with Win2K until tomorrow when my new computer arrives...hurrah! Thanks again Pedja -----Original Message----- From: Valentin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 January 2005 13:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lingo programming discussion list Subject: Re: <lingo-l> OpenFile dialog in thumbnail mode Pedja wrote: > I was messing around yesterday trying to send key strokes and I've > "almost" succeded, but I couldn't send the "WINPOPUP" stroke (the > button next to "Alt GR") because the dialog gets modal although it can > receive > a sequence of TABs before it's initialised!? > (the sequence should be: 6xTAB, WINPOPUP,arrow down, arrow right, 5x > arrow down, enter)..or something like that...with the standard > explorer(My Computer) it's simply (ALT+v,ALT+h) but unfortunately not > with the Open dialog...damn > Ah well...if you do get around to make the dialog with the thumbnail > feature let me know and feel free to put some price on it!:)) > > Thanks a lot > > Pedja > > P.s. here is a bigger chalenge for you.. can you make it so it can be > embeded in MD :))))) Now I'm a bit curious, why do you need the WINPOPUP key? You want to change the view mode of a dialog window from list view to thumbnail view, right? At least on Win XP Pro, you only need 6xTAB, 2x arrow right, 2x arrow down, RETURN, that's it, no WINPOPUP needed. Or is this for Win2k? And I'm too stupid to understand your post scriptum, does MD stand for director? if yes, what do you mean with "embedding the dialog in director"? Valentin [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [email protected] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
