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Editor Feature Request: Friendlier file chooser dialog

Open MrYsLab opened this issue 9 years ago • 5 comments

The current file chooser in the editor sorts files and directories randomly. It would be nice to have a more full featured file chooser. At a minimum, files/directories should be initially sorted alphabetically.

MrYsLab avatar Oct 20 '16 17:10 MrYsLab

Well, so which kind of improvements you suggest to do?

  1. Alphabetical Ordering;
  2. ...

dddomodossola avatar Oct 20 '16 18:10 dddomodossola

@MrYsLab However is strange. It should be already ordered. Isn't it for you?

dddomodossola avatar Oct 20 '16 18:10 dddomodossola

Here is a link to an article that demonstrates what I would like to see. This is a javascript solution to bring up the native OS file chooser dialog box. I fully admit that I am out of my depth here and I have no idea what it would take for you to implement, so please just take this as a suggestion and not a "demand".

I just tried the editor in Windows, and things are sorted properly. Below is a screenshot running on Ubuntu. If you could get linux to sort, that would meet my needs, but having a native file chooser would give the most flexibility.

For me, this is a very low priority request, since I have the generated code completed, but I think having a full capability file chooser would be a plus for your product. From my point of view, there is no rush for this.

file_chooser shot:

MrYsLab avatar Oct 20 '16 18:10 MrYsLab

@MrYsLab I will setup a Linux machine in order to reproduce and fix the problem. You are right, the actual File navigator have to be improved. I will do my best. ;-)

dddomodossola avatar Oct 20 '16 18:10 dddomodossola

I can confirm the lack of alphabetical sorting on Raspbian

For Linux I would like to optionally suppress the hidden files (those beginning with .)

KenT2 avatar Dec 17 '16 16:12 KenT2