Hi, maybe instead of UIManager you could look on UITheme. For example the following code: Smalltalk ui theme chooseFullFileNameIn: World title: 'Select file to open' extensions: nil path: (myActualFilePath isNil ifTrue: [ myActualFilePath ] ifFalse: [ FileSystem workingDirectory ]) preview: nil This will open a dialog with "Select file to open" in title, it will accept file of every extension and the path will begin at myActualFilePath or into the working directory if the actual file path is nil. On 12 May 2015 at 18:00, amaloney <amaloney@earthlink.net> wrote:

I have a method: openSimulationFile inFile := (StandardFileStream fileNamed: '/Users/amaloney/Squeak/30shoes.txt') ascii I want to replace the hard coded fully qualified filename with the result of a file browser dialog.

I've done some Googling and poked around in the system browser and I find that if I enter (in a playground) UIManager default chooseDirectory and inspect-it I get: a FileReference (/Users/amaloney/Squeak) and if I try UIManager default chooseFileMatching: #( '*.txt' ) I get: a ByteString ('Readme.txt').

It seems that UIManager chooseDirectory is the method I should start exploring (since it returns a FileReference object) but the method is: chooseDirectory "Let the user choose a directory" ^self chooseDirectoryFrom: FileSystem workingDirectory

and when I look at chooseDirectoryFrom: I get chooseDirectoryFrom: dir "Let the user choose a directory" ^self chooseDirectory: nil from: dir so I look at chooseDirectory: from: and I get: chooseDirectory: label from: dir "Let the user choose a directory" ^self subclassResponsibility Which doesn't help so I dig around in the docs some more and find out that the green down arrow is clickable. When I click it and choose MorphicUlManager>>#chooseDirectory:from: the method definition is: chooseDirectory: label from: dir "Answer the user choice of a directory."

| modalMorph realLabel | realLabel := label ifNil: ['Choose Directory' translated]. (ProvideAnswerNotification signal: realLabel) ifNotNil: [:answer | ^answer ]. modalMorph := self modalMorph. ^modalMorph theme chooseDirectoryIn: modalMorph title: realLabel path: (dir ifNotNil: [dir fullName])

The problem is that I cannot find a chooseDirectoryIn:title:path: method.

I wrote this all out hoping someone can tell me where I chose the wrong rabbit hole and can point me to instructions on how to choose the correct rabbit hole. ;-) (Also, if there is a short answer i.e. use this object>>method, I'd appreciate that as well.)

Thanks,

Mike

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