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6:24:19
recalloc
Hi, I'm learning McCLIM and writing a dummy app to learn about it. I'm looking for a file chooser dialog that matches a similar look and feel to what most other toolkits use -- a new window that opens a file browser, to choose a file to open (or type in a filename to create) and returns a pathname.
6:25:06
recalloc
I can't yet find anything which matches this. Does it exist in McCLIM, or am I looking for something which doesn't exist (yet)?
6:25:55
no-defun-allowed
Gnuxie has a directory-explorer-pane that could be fashioned into a dialog: https://gitlab.com/Gnuxie/clim-directory-explorer-pane
6:32:12
recalloc
I looked at the listener, and it has the same role but doesn't have the same UX. A directory explorer sounds close to what I'm looking for.
7:14:10
scymtym
there is also https://irclog.tymoon.eu/freenode/%23clim?around=1582305360#1582305360
8:20:00
jackdaniel
does anyone have access to this article? https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1317224.1317229 ; it talks about Delphi Common Lisp (part of the Lisp Pointers issue in 1988)
8:21:06
jackdaniel
I hope that we all have social ties and sharing it with me would fall into the fair use domain
9:15:48
phoe
...I also found https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/static/files/papers/dcl-foderaro.pdf which seems to be the same document
9:20:15
phoe
This one seems to be just a brief description of DCL, but it is consistent with similar articles from other issues of Lisp Pointers
10:23:16
john-a-carroll
recalloc: please see select-file "File selector dialog for use with McCLIM applications". It's available through QuickLisp: https://github.com/tapioco71/select-file/