Support of setAccessoryView on OS X for -filetypes

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#248 Support of setAccessoryView on OS X for -filetypes

Status: open

Owner: Jeffrey Hobbs

Labels: 37. [tk_get*File] (11)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2012-09-27

Created: 2012-09-27

Creator: Torsten Berg

Private: No

The OS X versions of tk_get*File (Tk-Cocoa) do not display -filetypes comboboxes/menubuttons when the -filetypes option is specified. The list of possible files is merely filtered. On Linux and Windows a combobox/menubutton is shown and the user can choose a filetype.

On OSX, the setAccessoryView task of the NSSavePanel and NSOpenPanel do support this kind of feature:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSSavePanel_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/cl/NSSavePanel

http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/295153-custom-nssavepanel.html

It looks as if this is relatively simple to implement and it would bring the OS X file dialogs to the same level as for the other platforms. If no -filetypes are specified, the accessory view could be hidden.

In the future, this accessory view culd even be used to display more options like checkboxes, text and other stuff.

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