Re: [AD] native filechooser addon

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20-Feb-09, at 9:58 AM, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> For things like a level editor, it can be really useful to display the
> system's standard file-open dialog to select files - even if the  
> rest of
> the program uses just Allegro 5. The attached addon adds two functions
> to allow it.
>
> For now, only a GTK filechooser is implemented. But if someone wants  
> to
> add Windows/OSX/Qt versions, I think this will be quite nice.

I personally think it's fine to add this to SVN already. I had a quick  
look at what's there and it should be fairly straightforward to make  
an OS X version for this. Two quick comments about that though:
1. The OS X file will be osx.m, not osx.c. This shouldn't be a problem.
2. OS X allows you to specify a list of extensions (without the  
leading .); it does not appear to allow you to specify a full pattern  
to match. Arguably it would be more useful for the file-dialog addon  
to work this way too, I think.

Evert