Subject: Re:  PARENT button in Impulse's file requester doesn't work?!?!??
Date: Sat, 14 May 1994 11:10:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Udo K Schuermann <walrus@wam.umd.edu>

>>Has anyone else out there noticed that the 'parent' button on Impulse's
>>file requester (Imagine 3.0:Amiga) doesn't do ANYTHING?
> 
> Sorry but you are wrong here.  Take a look at your path in the drawer box
> after clicking the textures directory.  What does it show?  It shows that
> only textures belongs to the path, there is no parent directory specified
> so hitting parent won't do anything.
> 
> If your path reads:
> 
>   imagine:textures/
> 
> and then you try parent, you will find that it take you back a directory
> to imagine:

And what about appending a '/' (Amiga) or '../' (PC) to the path?  ONE MORE
REASON to use standard ASL requesters!!  It IS a bug in my book, just not a
terribly dreadful one.

 ._.  Udo Schuermann
 ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu



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