Re: File selector talk writeup



On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 20:17, Dan Mills wrote:
> On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 06:37  PM, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > Other than encoding though I can't think of any good examples of
> > common add-ons.
> 
> If you have a file that can be read in more than way, an open dialog 
> would need a drop-down box to allow the user to choose (i.e., an 
> "import"-style menu).
> 
> For example, if you have an app that can display all xml files using a 
> generic tree view, but can also render a subset of xml docs in a more 
> specialized manner.

That doesn't necessarily belong to the open file dialog.  You can
organize the UI by having e.g. File -> Import or whatever.

-- 
Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>

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