Re: [MacPerl] Folder Selection Dialog?

[Alan Fry <ajf@afco.demon.co.uk>]

On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:49:36 -0500, Andrew Robinson wrote:

>     I need to select a folder in an application and would love to use a
>dialog to make it slick. I did not see how in MPAE and couldn't figure
>out how to get StandardGetFile or CustomGetFile to return a folder name.
>Can I do this? Could some kind soul show me how?

You might find:

	$dir = MacPerl::Choose (4, 0, '', '', 4);
	print $dir, "\n";

does what you want. For more details see "macperl.pod".

To do anything more 'modern' you would need to install 
'Mac-Navigation'. However beware; Navigation.pm has some bugs and 
difficulties.

HTH,

Alan Fry

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