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File chooser/selector dialog
Mar 30th, 2011 at 5:46pm
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There's no way to use the standard Windows file dialog box, is there? The  LocalFileDialog one is awful...
  
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Reply #1 - Mar 30th, 2011 at 7:05pm
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No. Sesame is cross-platform and client/server. MS is not.

You could probably VBScript something and use one of the SBasic commands to invoke it.

Do you have any specific suggestions as to how we might make the local file dialog more to your liking?
  
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Reply #2 - Mar 30th, 2011 at 8:10pm
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The Back, Up, New shortcuts and View menu would all make things a lot easier...
  
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Re: File chooser/selector dialog
Reply #3 - Mar 30th, 2011 at 8:33pm
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jacker wrote on Mar 30th, 2011 at 8:10pm:
The Back, Up, New shortcuts and View menu would all make things a lot easier...


Thank you for the input, Jacker. We'll look into your requests. Meanwhile, the Local File Dialog does have some features that you may not have recognized because they don't look like the Windows Common Dialog.

The button showing a folder with a plus sign in the upper right-hand corner will create a new folder. 

If you look at the bar above where the Filename is displayed, you may notice that it is broken into pieces above each part of the directory path. You can click that bar to jump directly to that spot in the path.

You can also backspace over the end of the path or type out the path you want and press Enter to load the displayed location.
  
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Re: File chooser/selector dialog
Reply #4 - Apr 12th, 2011 at 3:14pm
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Arg...I've got a dozen "low-power" MS Windows Sesame users complaining that they do not understand the Sesame File Chooser dialog box and why can't it look like what they are used to?! I am now in the unenviable position of having to duplicate the MS Windows File Chooser dialog box...

Please consider a Windows / Unix Mode Switch or something like that in future releases....so people can use the standard Windows dialogs.
  
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Reply #5 - Apr 12th, 2011 at 3:45pm
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We'll see what we can do, Jacker.
  
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Reply #6 - Apr 12th, 2011 at 4:11pm
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In the meantime, you can use one of SBasic process commands to invoke VBScript to open a file dialog locally:

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vbscript-systems-administrator/using-t...
  
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