Carroll, Barry wrote: > Greetings: > > Essentially, page must do the following: > > 1. present the files in the directory to the user as some sort > of list from which multiple names can be selected, > 2. present the selected file names in the order in which they > were selected, > 3. allow the user to add additional names, remove existing names > and change their order at will. >
> I've seen dialog boxes in GUI based programs that do this sort of > things. Is there a widget or recipe extant that does this on a web > page? I've looked in the "Python Cookbook" and the recipe pages on > aspn.activestate.com. I didn't see anything promising. Any ideas? Sounds like a good time to learn some AJAX. Something like this? http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/SortableListsDemo To do this on a web page you need to use JavaScript, not Python. It's not too hard to write the classic list-on-the-left, move left button, move right button, list-on-the-right. But these days you can do much fancier stuff such as the link above. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
