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Summary: | [50cat] Allow multiple file selection in quick file chooser | ||
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Product: | contrib | Reporter: | host <host> |
Component: | Quick Filechooser | Assignee: | Jesse Glick <jglick> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | blocker | ||
Priority: | P3 | ||
Version: | 5.x | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: |
Description
host
2005-09-08 13:35:53 UTC
It would, though I have no idea how to present the UI for such a thing. Would probably need some special keystroke for accepting the selected file, adding it to a list, and continuing with further selections. I would think that a multiple selection could be made possible if you keep e.g. the CTRL-key pressed and then select the desired files or directories. That would be OK for mouse usage but not keyboard usage. One use-case for multiple selection in the quick file chooser is selection of JAR files in a "lib" directory - e.g. when adding a list of files for editor code completion in a free-form project (not for actual compilation, which is handled OK by Ant). For this particular use case an acceptable input would use wildcards, like "*.jar". More complex regular expressions to match desired filenames may be added later, but at least selecting a bunch of JAR files in one shot would be really helpful. *** Issue 67865 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** I don't plan to spend time on this. Workaround when you need a multiselection: use QFC to get to the right dir, then press Classic button to switch to a different filechooser UI and finish. Enabling * to be used as a wildcard. Does not support arbitrary multiselection, but usually people just want to select *.jar in some dir or similar. release65/contrib #63790844769d |