Dear Mr. Wenk,

The statements

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������ ������ ifTrue: [dialog selection]
������ ������ ifFalse: [nil]

let you pick any kind of directory (empty and not empty). A path selector dialog with a combobox (shows the selected path and lets select a path), a selection list of directories of the current path and some helper buttons for creating a new directory, etc.) is part of the selecting dialog. You can traverse the hirarchy of displayed paths down and up to the required one.

As you write, i assume you are working with VisualWorks. My example is from VW 7.8.1.

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On 12.02.2015 15:43, Steven Kelly wrote:
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You can map between UNCs and drive letters using the command prompt���s ���net use��� or (for permanent mappings only?) the registry���s \\HKCU\Network. Should be easy enough (and fast enough) to make VW���s own directory dialog use one of those to add that info when opening.

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From: Ulli Wenk [mailto:wenk@hinz.de]
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 2:42 PM
To: Steven Kelly
Subject: Re: [Esug-list] how to pick an existing (empty) directory name (mapped in Windows to a drive letter)?

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Please, look again the the red-mark text!

Am 12.02.2015 um 12:41 schrieb Steven Kelly:

��Dialog requestDirectoryName: 'Choose a Directory:'

which explicitly selects a directory (including empty ones) rather than a file.

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Subject: [Esug-list] how to pick an existing (empty) directory name (mapped in Windows to a drive letter)?

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Hello,

how I can use a native FolderDialog/DirectoryRequest for a directory which may be empty (we need it for selecting a subprocess-working-directory chosen by our users)?

The VW FileDialog and Win32FileDialog can only be used for not empty directories (selecting an arbitrary file and getting its directory path). The Aragon.Widget Dialog>requestDirectory let me select a directory but does not show the drive letters of the (Windows-) mapped drives. Thus, for our users (hospital nurses), it is not so easy to find a known directory.
Has anybody a solution?

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