[PD] Hidden folders in PD open/save dialog

[Andre Schmidt]

would be very nice if pd used the open dialog of the current system
(like gnome open dialog under gnome, windows under windows, etc...)

as i have many links to my favorite places on the left side of the gnome
open dialog, it would speed things up a lot! and of course, i bet
everyone wants to hide those hidden files :)

i have no idea if this is technically possible, i would assume in the
worst case (besides not possible at all) we would use some bindings...
but for every system ?

is there an universal open dialog api ? ;)

.andre

ps. under linux we could also use "zenity --file-selection" (or similar)
http://directory.fsf.org/project/zenity/ 

and heres something found in the tcl/tk wiki http://wiki.tcl.tk/15897


On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 11:45 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> This would be huge, it would greatly help the newbies.  In workshops,  
> a lot of people had trouble with those open/save panels.
> 
> There are quite a few apps written with Tcl/Tk for GNU/Linux, so I am  
> sure we are not the first to want this feature.  I would be very  
> surprised if another Tcl/Tk app hasn't solved this already.
> 
> I have had good luck with the #tcl room.
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Mar 30, 2008, at 8:11 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> > This would be a Good Thing ... I wasn't of the impression it would  
> > be easy
> > to do though.  I've been assuming that would necessitate writing,  
> > and then
> > having to maintain, a whole new open dialog widget.  If there's a  
> > smarter
> > way to do it I'd love to know about it.
> >
> > cheers
> > Miller
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 03:25:00PM -0500, Daniel Wilcox wrote:
> >> Ok,
> >>
> >> Here's another todo for Linux I am willing to solve, along with  
> >> drag and
> >> drop and better desktop integration: hidden folders in the file  
> >> browser.
> >>
> >> PD defaults to the home folder of the current user, which is full  
> >> of hidden
> >> folders (.foldername) which are naturally listed fist.  This means  
> >> that
> >> every time I go to open or save something I have to scroll the little
> >> browser window past these (non-)hidden folders to my visible  
> >> folders.  Yeah,
> >> I know, its a small thing, but I always find it annoying.
> >> This is something that other applications which use the GTK-gnome  
> >> file
> >> browser handle and hitting Ctrl-H toggles hidden file display.
> >>
> >> I don't have a huge signal processing background, so I'll try and  
> >> help in my
> >> own way :P.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Dan Wilcox
> >> danomatika
> >> www.robotcowboy.com
> >
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