Open File Dialogs
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Open File Dialogs
You probably have specific reasons for using swing.FileChooser for open file dialogs, but it would be really nice if you could use java.awt.FileDialog instead of javax.swing.FileChooser for selecting files to open.
I say this as a OSX user who has to explain to ELAN users how to "really" navigate through their filesystem when they are dropped into their user directory by default or etc, and want to navigate to another mounted drive. But I also say this as a regular user of ELAN who finds the lack of OS specific widgets (that you get for free in FileDialog) a bit of an encumbrance in using ELAN.
Anyway, I guess this is a low priority feature request, but it would be really nice :-) Otherwise, I should say thanks for such useful program!
Re: Open File Dialogs
This has been put forward by several users, so we'll take this into serious consideration. One problem is that the awt.FileDialog is not extendable in the same way as the swing FileChooser. In some open and save dialogs we have added a dropdown box for the file encoding and the "New..." dialog is completely customized. Another problem is that the Windows variant of the awt.FileDialog is less attractive so this would mean another part of our code where we would to have check on which platform the code runs.
In the new version of ELAN it is for Windows users possible to switch to the Windows "Look and Feel" and there the swing.FileChooser looks pretty close to the native file browser.
-Han
Re: Re: Open File Dialogs
Okay thanks. I look forward to it.
(btw the new transcription mode is fantastic)
Release of ELAN 4.3.0
