Hello Fred, here's another intermediate report on the status of the "newdialogs"' msefiledialogx. It was a hard bit of work to make the "compact" diaplay work the same as with the plain original version. You made it work i a "horizontal" manner, which is very unusual and doesn't easily allow for multifile selection, as it always selects across all columns. But switching the display to the vertical arrangement always caused an Error 217 exit. The reason turned out to be an incomplete initialization during the first call to the fill function for the "list_log" field. It took me quite some attempts and much time to find this really not-so-obvious connection. Now that this is done, a similar hunt for the non-functioning multiple selection of the full display is on. This _might_ be somewhat more straightforward, as I found many places where its selection is simply discarded and the current cell defocused - perhaps there is a connection? After all, really many modifications of the code were neccessary, and a number of simplifications and shortcuts has also been introduced. In my opinion, it's somewhat more efficient now, and quite some unneccessary intermediate variables have been removed. On the other hand, it's now capable to run "stand-alone", and I made a according application that makes use of this feature, my often mentioned "FileRequest" program.
For your reference, I've put a new version of the "newdialogs" units along with a special package named "newmsefiledialogx.zip" on my website. The latter contains the "msefiledialogx" component only, along with now two sample applications, the (incomplete) "TextView" program you got already, and newly an application named "FileRequesterX" comprising a stand-alone file selection program that can serve many different purposes. It will display a "help" list if called without parameters, explaining in short terms what it can do. I hope it can be useful, but should do as an example for the use of the file dialog component. Thank you for your support and patience, and have a good time! -- (Weitergabe von Adressdaten, Telefonnummern u.ä. ohne Zustimmung nicht gestattet, ebenso Zusendung von Werbung oder ähnlichem) ----------------------------------------------------------- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, S. Schicktanz ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ mseide-msegui-talk mailing list mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mseide-msegui-talk
