[BioC] widgets

[Rafael A. Irizarry]

i agree that sometimes the dirs are sometimes necesary. thats why i
suggest we implement an option, say 'showdirs=T'

btw, i forgot to mention that on the system where im testing this (redhat
7.1 running R 1.5) if you select a directory nothing happens.

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Robert Gentleman wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:18:57PM -0500, Rafael A. Irizarry wrote:
> > hi! some comments about the fileBrowser function.
> > 
> > 1 - is it possible to have an argumet, say showdirs=F, that lets you
> > decide if you want to see directories or not. i would usually want to only
> > see files.
> 
>   The problem with that is: how do you navigate? If you get the
>   working directory right all is well and good -- otherwise you're
>   toast. Jianhua did this in some of the early versions and it could
>   be reinstated.
> 
>   If you think about the example below, usually I have the cdf files
>   in one place and the cel files in another -- I want to select both
>   at one time == navigation
> 
> > 
> > 2 - is is possible to have an argument, say text="", that lets you add
> > test that will apear on the widget? for example i would have it say
> > "choose ond cdf file and any cel file you want to read in"
> > 
>    That should be pretty straight forward.
> 
>    Instructions: (paste your text here).
> 
> 
>   good ideas -- thanks Rafael.
>  (but please -- bioconductor is the place for discussions)
> 
> 
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