Hi,

Does Lazarus have a TDirectoryListBox component? I found the TFileListBox and I'm not sure if it's directory friend is in some extra package maybe?

Regards,
- Graeme -

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A TDirectoryListBox is too limited, because in Windows you also need a combobox to choose the drive, which doesn't exist in other operating system.

A more cross-platform solution is implementing TShellTreeView, because it will represent both the dir and the drive in Windows and only the dir in other operating systems (In Mac OS X I think we also need the volume). This control is in my ToDo list. I'm just waiting some guidelines to start development.

2 more details:

Search in File returns no implementation for TDirectoryListBox in Lazarus svn

And TShellTreeView is named so just for Delphi compatibility

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote

A TDirectoryListBox is too limited, because in Windows you also need a combobox to choose the drive, which doesn't exist in other operating system.

That's true...

Thanks Felipe, that sounds interesting. It might be useful to integrate TShellTreeView in the File Browser IDE add-on (under development). I just send my code to Michael van Canneyt. The main form used a Treeview and the FileListBox. It's pretty much a copy of the DirSel.pas unit (included in LCL but not used anywhere). It (dirsel.pas) has quite a few bugs under Windows, which I fixed in the File Browser code. The completed IDE add-on should be available soon.

Your response just reminder me to include some code from fpGUI, which handles drive letters (windows) or not (unix) without issues. I'll incorporate that code into the File Browser, if Michael didn't spot it. ;-)

Regards,
- Graeme -

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