On Wednesday 04 July 2007 13:28:57 Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote:
> > Well I've never managed to get OOo to even see any FoxPro DBFs in the > > filepicker dialog, but then maybe I was doing something wrong and I > > haven't tested this with a recent dev version of OOo. Doesn't this have > > anything to do with the type detection that might be implemented in the > > file picker ? > > Huh? The file picker does not have any type detection, the file picker > picks files, the type detection runs later. Having read the spec, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/File_Chooser_Type_Handling_Specification I understand better how that works, so as you say, there must be something else. > > The only thing the file picker does (to my best knowledge, and there was > I time I was responsible for the file picker) is hiding, well, hidden > files. So maybe FoxPro creates files which are hidden by default? Not as far as I know, but then I'm not an expert on the FoxPro format. > Is there an issue for this? If so, can you attach such a file to this > issue? If not, could you submit one? Well "I would if I could, but I can't so I shan't" as we used to say when I was a kid ;-) I no longer have Windows or any kind of FoxPro db lying around, but the OP might be able to help us out if his files aren't confidential. ;-) Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
