Re: Best way to get a file path for presentation to the user
Re: Best way to get a file path for presentation to the user
- Subject: Re: Best way to get a file path for presentation to the user
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 09:48:27 +0100
On 19 Dec 2015, at 09:51, Graham Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
> My use case is an interface that sets up a batch of files for saving in a particular folder. The user chooses the folder using a standard NSOpenPanel, but I want to display the chosen location in the UI so that they don’t need to remember it. I don’t think a NSPathControl is really appropriate for this.
What gives you that impression? That seems to be exactly what it was made for.
> But I do want the string to be the most understandable for the user. I don’t know really how many average users understand what ~/ means, but it’s probably the best I can do.
"~" is a nerd thing. If you're in any way in touch with whoever does your support, you don't want to add something this confusing to your GUI. What I did in UKFilePathView is just shorten the path at the start to a point of interest when displaying it, e.g. having the path display just start at the home folder and using the file icon to have the user recognize it is a user folder.
Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
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