Re: Next release of GUI and backends?

[Mirko Viviani]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Nicola Pero  wrote:

> For example imagine that an application is letting the user choose to
> which file it wants to redirect some logs.  The logs will be _appended_ to
> the file.
>
> Should it use the open panel or the save panel ?

Save panel.

> (does the open panel allow you at all to select a non-existing file ?).

No, apart overriding -ok:

> On the other side, if you use the save panel, then if the user chooses an
> existing file, the application does not want to display the popup panel
> saying `the file already exists, do you want to replace it' - because it's
> not going to replace it, but only to append to it.  Or perhaps it might
> want to replace this popup panel with something saying `the file already
> exists, do you want to append to it or to replace it ?'.

Hmmm... we could move the alert panel code in another method to be easily
overridden. Does it seem reasonable ?

> > > Does openstep/apple stuff have this panel ?
> > OS has it.
>
> Ok - I suppose then there could be a reasonable way to work around it.
> Perhaps using the open panel in that case might work ?

I have checked but it doesn't seem possible. (don't know for osx)

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