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Ambiguity in File > Open menu
Describe the issue you are having
Running RIDE on Windows, go to File > Open. A dialog box appears. The filter for this is set to "all files". Andy suggests changing this to .dyalog and .dws files to make it clear that this is what's expected...he was initally unsure if he could open (for example) a config file or another interpreter from here.
Did you connect to an already running interpreter or start the interpreter from RIDE?
n/a
How do you reproduce the issue?
Run RIDE on Windows, go to File > Open. A dialog box appears. The filter for this is set to "all files".
Paste the contents of Help → About (Shift+F1)
Reported by Andy in RIDE 4.2
We could change this. but at the moment it isn't actually restricted to those file types as it will happily allow you to open any file that the Dyalog editor supports.
M problem is that I had no idea whatsoever what files could be opened.
On Windows I did file -> open and was shown my desktop. I selected the firefox shotcut and then
)ED file://C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
in the session and then 3 times was told that the specified flle didn’t exist and did I want to create it. No mention of what the file was that didn’t exist at any time.
Just not sure that . tells me enough about what I can and cannot open.
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From: Gilgamesh Athoraya [email protected] Sent: 17 April 2019 09:23 To: Dyalog/ride [email protected] Cc: Subscribed [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dyalog/ride] Ambiguity in File > Open menu (#530)
We could change this. but at the moment it isn't actually restricted to those file types as it will happily allow you to open any file that the Dyalog editor supports.
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