[TxMt] tm_dialog: add FileSelect + Appending Accessory Views

[Hans-Jörg Bibiko]

On 26.07.2007, at 00:33, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> 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.

Good to know in beforehand :) Well, I don't know whether I'm the  
right person to do it but I will think about it. But I believe I will  
need some help ;)

What do you mean with "... I probably won’t work much on tm_dialog  
until Leopard"?
Will be there a change for tm_dialog in TM 2.0?

>> [...]
>> 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.

I see. The OPTIONS -cnmqaltxw are really options for tm_dialog  
displaying a nib.
Then I understood your suggestion in that way:

tm_dialogAPI         ShowAlert     {paramsAsPLIST:=title, message,  
style}
tm_dialogAPI         ShowMenu      {paramsAsPLIST:=items}
tm_dialogAPI OPTIONS ShowNib       {paramsAsPLIST:=nibFile, defaults}
	if nibFile=OpenPanel then {paramsAsPLIST:=nibFile, defaults,  
[AccessoryViewNib]}

'OpenPanel' is a dummy for Cocoa's NSOpenPanel.
Maybe one could also add SavePanel, PrintPanel, ColorPanel,  
FontPanel, DatePicker, ... ;)

Hans