> On 6 Sep 2018, at 21:37, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A question to those who worked on the new streams for Pharo 7:
>
>
> In PHARO 6 I used the following expression to open a file dialog and let the
> user choose
> a binary file:
>
> s := UITheme builder fileOpen: 'Choose a file' extensions: #('exe').
>
> This returned
> - either nil (when file dialog was canceled)
> - a "MultiByteFileStream" instance when a file was selected
>
> The MultiByteFileStream instance already had the name of the file (= full
> path) and I was
> able to query it for further use:
>
> s := UITheme builder fileOpen: 'Choose a file' extensions: #('exe').
> s name inspect
>
> (for instance to display which file is processed in a window by showing the
> full path)
>
>
>
> Now in PHARO 7 same expression returns an instance of ZnCharacterReadStream
> (as MultiByteFileStream
> is deprecated):
>
> s := UITheme builder fileOpen: 'Choose a file' extensions: #('exe').
>
> and ZnCharacterReadStream does not understand #name - and in fact the info
> about the name is
> totally lost/not available. To me this looks missing/broken.
>
> So what is the recommended way in Pharo 7 to open a file dialog, let the use
> choose a file
> and get a file stream but also the name? IMHO this is either broken or
> missing...
>
> Thanks
> T.
It should return a FileReference, not an open stream. I believe there are
methods that do that.
But that is an incompatible API change (same selector, different return type).
So hard to decide.
