ro2m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Randy O'Reilly) (04/03/91)
For those interested, it appears there are 2 options for a File Requester: 1. The FreeWidgetFoundation FileSelector widget, which I used, is Xt-based and works well. It has a device-independent directory manager section that I was able to configure for my Amiga with little problem. It comes with the standard Unix directory scanning routines. 2. David Nedde has taken the file requestor code out of xdbx, and made it more generally applicable. He can be reached at: daven@[maxine|wpi].wpi.edu for more details on this. -Randy O'Reilly
totty@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Totty) (04/03/91)
In article <4byCxsu00jWFIqkatC@andrew.cmu.edu>, ro2m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Randy O'Reilly) writes: > For those interested, it appears there are 2 options for a File > Requester: > 1. The FreeWidgetFoundation FileSelector widget, which I > used, is Xt-based and works well. It has a device-independent > directory manager section that I was able to configure for my Amiga > with little problem. It comes with the standard Unix directory > scanning routines. Just a note that the "Free Widget Foundation" is not related to the "Free Software Foundation". The name was chosen because of a similarity of goals. In reality, we are not a true "foundation", just a bunch of people trying to combine our efforts a little to try to get a better collection of X building blocks together. For more information of the FWF effort, you can send mail to free-widgets-request@eagle.cnsf.cornell.edu to be placed on the free widgets mailing list. A demo collection of some ad hoc widgets thrown together about 6 months ago (including the FileSelector widget & test program) can be obtained via anonymous ftp to a.cs.uiuc.edu (128.174.252.1) from the file pub/fwf.shar.Z.