[crayz]

I am just making a really simple app to try out using PB/IB to wrap a CLI tool with a GUI. Right now I've got it so there's a text box where you can enter a file name, and a button to hit to process it.

What I'd like to do is instead of the text box have one of those things that's a text box with a button next to it, and if you hit the button(usually called "Browse") it opens like an Open File dialog, and lets you select a file, and once you do it puts the path in the text box.

Can anyone tell me(in fairly good detail - I never touched IB before last night) how to do this, or even better point me to a code example?

[Ghoser777]

One word: NSOpenPanel

Short and skinny, you need to create a method in your controller object that will make an NSOpenPanel (the documentation on this is really clear and simple) and then return what file if any is selected in the NSOpenPanel. Then link your button's action to that method and do whatever stuff you need to do.

HTH,
F-bacher

[crayz]

OK I've got it so there's a button, and when you press the button an open dialog appears, and I think my code for getting the file name from that dialog should work, but now how do I:
a) update the text box so that it displays the path of the file that was selected and
b) make it so that file(as a string) is used as the argument for opening the CLI tool?

I really have no clue on the first. For the second I tried:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>[CLItool setArguments:file];</font>[/code]

But that doesn't work

Before it was:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>[CLItool setArguments:[NSArray arrayWithObject:[fileFolder stringValue]]];</font>[/code]

fileFolder being an IBOutlet for the text box

I know this is newbie stuff but can anyone help?

[ 12-31-2001: Message edited by: crayz ]

[crayz]

Never mind, I found out what the problem was.