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steveb
selectFolder() strange interface
Feb 14th, 2010, 6:31pm  
Just wondering why selectFolder brings up a different interface than the standard OS interface used with selectOutput. I want the user to select where to save a prenamed .pdf file, so selectFolder seems to be the way to go, but I don't like that my program won't integrate with the users OS as well as selectOutput would. Anyway around it?
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TfGuy44
Re: selectFolder() strange interface
Reply #1 - Feb 14th, 2010, 7:43pm  
Wow, that is strange...  Shocked

My guess is that, since it's platform-specific, there's no way to change it. At least it does what you need it to do, yeah?
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PhiLho 
Re: selectFolder() strange interface
Reply #2 - Feb 15th, 2010, 1:01am  
selectInput and selectOuput uses AWT's FileDialog, which relies on the native system dialog to let select a file.
Apparently, AWT doesn't have support for folder choosing, perhaps because it is missing on some systems.
On MacOS, Processing uses an Apple extension to show a native dialog.
On other systems, it uses JFileChooser, a Swing component, which is created from scratch.
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