Hi Graham,
I want a user to see the contents of a series of text files, all in the same folder. Let's say the files are called A01,A02... G99 or something like that. The sequence of operations is -
1. The user is offered a normal 'open' dialog to select a file, initially navigating to the folder in question and picking A01 to read.
2. The user looks at the file, does some action and disposes of it.
3. The user usually then wishes to look at the next file in the alphabetical sequence (A02 in my example, but it might be any text string). Clearly she/he can navigate to this name by:
a) remembering the name of the last file looked at;
b) scrolling down to the file below the last file looked at in the normal 'open' dialog
If there are a lot of files, this scrolling becomes tedious on most OSs (e.g in OSX the OS 'open' dialog doesn't hilite the last file read, nor does it scroll down to it), so I would prefer to propose the name of the next file in the sequence in the 'open' dialog for the user to accept or reject.
What would be the best way to do this? So far I've only thought of traversing the folder somehow before the user starts work, and putting all the file names in a list field for the user to pick from. Seems kind of overkill, though.
All thoughts gratefully received.
If you were content to simply have the user pick among all files in the folder last visited, you could simply set the defaultFolder to the folder containing the last file selected after each selection.
Placing a list of the files in a field may seem like overkill; but it allows additional options. Example:
With SDB's folder archive stack the user can deselect/select individual files by clicking on them and folders by ctrl-clicking on any file in a folder. Deselected items are colored gray; selected items inherit the field's textColor. You could use the same technique to mark which files on the list have already been visited.
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Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company
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