Re: [Changeset] uigetfile, uigetdir, uiputfile

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 21, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Kai Habel wrote:

> On 18.11.2010 20:57, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> On 18-Nov-2010, Kai Habel wrote:
>> 
>> | I have not received much feedback so far. Here is a new Changeset, if
>> | nobody objects I will push this in a few days.
>> 
>> Sorry, I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I have no objection
>> to you pushing it now if it is mostly working.
>> 
>> | +## @deftypefnx {Function File} address@hidden =} uigetdir ()
>> | +## Open a GUI dialog to select a directory. If @var{init_path} is not 
>> given
>> 
>> | +## @deftypefnx {Function File} address@hidden =} uigetfile 
>> (@dots{},"Multiselect",@var{mode})
>> | +##
>> | +## Opens a GUI dialog to select a file. It returns the filename 
>> @var{fname},
>> 
>> | +## @deftypefnx {Function File} address@hidden, @var{fpath}, @var{fltidx}] 
>> =} uiputfile ())
>> | +## Opens a GUI dialog to select a file. @var{flt} contains a (list of) 
>> file
>> | +## filter string(s) in one of the following formats:
>> 
>> Please consistently use "Open" instead of "Opens" here.  The first
>> sentence of a doc string should be written as a command, not a
>> description.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> jwe
> O.k. I have pushed it with the minor fixes. Since I could try this on linux 
> 32bit and 64bit I am especially interested in reports if these function work 
> as expected on MacOS and Windows. For a simple test you can just use:
> 
> demo uigetdir
> demo uigetfile
> demo uiputfile
> 
> Kai

When I demo uigetfile or uiputfile, I'm presented with a dialog what is not of 
the pwd. I've attached a picture. uigetdir works the same as Matlab and 
presents the pwd.

It looks to me as if the dialog is a partial representation of my root 
directory.

octave:8> ls -1 /
Applications
Developer
Library
Network
ProIndependent.QtiPlot
System
User Guides And Information
Users
Volumes
bin
cores
dev
etc
home
home (from old Mac)
lost+found
mach_kernel
net
opt
private
sbin
sw
tmp
usr
var

Ben