[TxMt] tm_dialog: add FileSelect + Appending Accessory Views

[Allan Odgaard]

On 25. Jul 2007, at 15:08, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:

> I wonder if it possible 'easily' to enhance tm_dialog in a way that  
> one can also use it as FileSelect dialog, like CocoaDialog it does,  
> in conjunction with an user-defined nib-file to append a CustomView  
> to the predefined NSOpenPanel.
> [...]

Yeah, that shouldn’t be too hard. Are you asking because you want to  
take a swing at it yourself, or because you’d like to see others add  
it? Personally I probably won’t work much on tm_dialog until Leopard.

> [...]
> tm_dialog -f

Just a general thought, not directly related to your request, but IMO  
tm_dialog is started to get too complex with respect to arguments,  
and we have already sort of gathered some legacy stuff ;)

Maybe we should rethink the argument format before adding more. E.g.  
switch to a system like “tm_dialog «action» «arguments»” so the  
action is the namespace specifier for the arguments.

I’d also like to change the convention related to the plist returned  
-- returning the full model isn’t useful when binding arguments to  
the action button. But maybe a better idea is to write a new shell  
command with a much cleaner API and still just provide tm_dialog as- 
is for backwards compatibility -- if this is done, it might be one of  
those things which is best done when making a major version change.