Open Panel

peejavery · August 19, 2006, 9:14pm

I can’t seem to get this to work.

I want to be able to select only one folder in an open panel and then display the name of that panel in a display dialog.

on clicked btnAdd
	set can choose directories of open panel to true
	set can choose files of open panel to false
	set allows multiple selection of open panel to false
	display open panel attached to window "Backup"
end clicked

on panel ended btnAdd with result retChosen
	if retChosen is 1 then
		set retFolder to path names of open panel
		display dialog retFolder attached to window "Backup"
	end if
end panel ended

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Bruce_Phillips · August 20, 2006, 6:54pm

What part of that are you having a problem with? You should post the error(s) you’re getting; If there isn’t an error, then you should say so.

Have you tried running your app inside Xcode and using the log command to see what kind of values you’re getting? The problem is that the dialog can not display a list, which is what path names returns. You could treat this a regular list (first item of .), or you could use something like this:

on clicked theObject
	tell open panel
		set can choose files to false
		set can choose directories to true
		set allows multiple selection to false
	end tell
	
	display open panel attached to window "main"
end clicked

on panel ended btnAdd with result retChosen
	if retChosen is 1 then
		set retFolder to path name of open panel
		display dialog retFolder attached to window "main"
	end if
end panel ended

Note the absence of the “s” from path name.