Mozilla expects our dialog to handle filters like: All File (*.*) Text Files (*.txt) HTML Files (*.html)
And when a user selects one of these, it displays that type of file based on extension. The OS/2 file dialog has no native support for this. It only uses extended attributes (which are basically useless) OS/2 as an API that causes these to work just as we need them so we use it. Unfortunately it limits other things. We're still looking, but my initial investigation showed that emulating the filter functionality would be very difficult. Mike Kaply IBM Felix Miata wrote: > Michael Kaply wrote: > > > Jens Schlatter wrote: > > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > > > > Jens Schlatter wrote: > > > > > > When I want to save a web page and I want to override one that I > > > > > already have, I click "Save as" and in the following file selection > > > > > dialog, I choose a name from the list of the existing files. > > > > > But with 0.9.5 this is not possible. The list is visible, but greyed. > > > > > Vote for the bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69972 > > > > Is this really os2-only? > > > Yes. It's because we don't use the normal file dialog API, we use a different > > one that won't let us enable the listbox. > > Why? What's wrong with normal API? > > > In order to fix this, we would have to write our own version of the file > > dialog from scratch. > > Ugh! > > > The reason we are using a different file dialog API in OS/2 is so that we can > > get the filters behavior (All Files *.*) for instance. > > ??????? What do filters have to do with a file save dialog? > -- > "A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely > overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the > common enemy." Samuel Adams > > Team OS/2 > > Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
