wxpython file dialog

[Guilherme Polo]

2008/2/11, Mike Driscoll <kyosohma at gmail.com>:
> On Feb 10, 6:41 am, Janwillem <jwevd... at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > Guilherme Polo wrote:
> > > 2008/2/10, Janwillem <jwevd... at xs4all.nl>:
> > >> Guilherme Polo wrote:
> > >>  > 2008/2/9, Janwillem <jwevd... at xs4all.nl>:
> >
> > >>>> Is there a way to force the wx.FileDialog to show as default the
> > >>  >>  thumbnails vie in stead of list view?
> > >>  >>  thanks, janwillem
> >
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> >
> > >>> You should be using wx.lib.imagebrowser.ImageDialog instead of
> > >>  > wx.FileDialog for that purpose.
> >
> > >> Thanks for the hint, very neat widget. However, it seems not to support
> > >>  multiple selection. My application selects from a series of low light
> > >>  photographs of the same subject the sharpest one (like BSS on Nikon
> > >>  Coolpix). So I need multiple selection and thumbnails. It works with
> > >>  wx.FileDialog style=FD_MULTIPLE but I have to select thumbnail view
> > >>  every time.
> >
> > >> Janwillem
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> >
> > > Unfortunately that is not possible with imagebrowser because it sets
> > > the listbox for single selection in the code. A patch will fix this.
> > > Now continuing on FileDialog.. I don't have the option to change to
> > > thumbnail view here, I guess you are using Windows, so it is not
> > > cross-platform. imagebrowser is cross-platform because it is all done
> > > by wxPython.
> >
> > The application is meant to become x-platform; prefarably linux osX and
> > win. I use:
> >
> > dialog=wx.FileDialog(None,'Choose picture file',defDir,\
> >      style=wx.OPEN | wx.FD_MULTIPLE,wildcard=wcard)
> >
> > and supposed that the wx dialog would work on linux. I did not yet test
> > this because the app depends on a lib (dll) which I have not yet made to
> > work in Linux (it's pascal and freepascal has a problem I have to dive
> > into).
>
> What is your application supposed to do? In the meantime, I recommend
> looking at this control:
>
> http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/main/ThumbnailCtrl.html
>
> You can probably get what you need from it. I also highly recommend
> posting to the wxPython user's group where you'll get more wx-specific
> help. See below:
>
> http://wxpython.org/maillist.php
>
> If you download the venerable wxPython Demo from wxPython.org, you can
> check out other related widgets such as wx.ImageBrowser or the
> wx.BitmapComboBox.

wx.ImageBrowser and wx.BitmapComboBox are non-existent widgets. There
are demos named like that but the actual widgets are
wx.lib.imagebrowser and wx.combo.BitmapComboBox

>
> HTH
>
> Mike
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