[BioC] Re: fileBrowser

[John Zhang]

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>regarding the directories, another possiblity is to have 3 windows:
>1-directories, 2-files, and 3-chosen files.

I personally will not be bothered by seeing directories together with other 
files in the same window. That is commonly done by other applications as well. I 
am not sure if it is worthwile to put a third window just for the directories.

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>On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, John Zhang wrote:
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>> >Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:18:57 -0500 (EST)
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>> >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.
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>> That can be done if we want to.
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>> >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"
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>> Has been done. fileBrowser now takes another parameter - textToShow - that 
will 
>> be displayed on the GUI.
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