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Cross-platform IDE for Dyalog APL
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Ambiguity in File > Open menu #530

Open FionaDyalog opened 5 years ago

FionaDyalog commented 5 years ago

Describe the issue you are having

Running RIDE on Windows, go to File > Open. A dialog box appears. The filter for this is set to "all files". Andy suggests changing this to .dyalog and .dws files to make it clear that this is what's expected...he was initally unsure if he could open (for example) a config file or another interpreter from here.

Did you connect to an already running interpreter or start the interpreter from RIDE?

n/a

How do you reproduce the issue?

Run RIDE on Windows, go to File > Open. A dialog box appears. The filter for this is set to "all files".

Paste the contents of Help → About (Shift+F1)

Reported by Andy in RIDE 4.2

e9gille commented 5 years ago

We could change this. but at the moment it isn't actually restricted to those file types as it will happily allow you to open any file that the Dyalog editor supports.

dyaandys commented 5 years ago

M problem is that I had no idea whatsoever what files could be opened.

On Windows I did file -> open and was shown my desktop. I selected the firefox shotcut and then 

            )ED file://C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

in the session and then 3 times was told that the specified flle didn’t exist and did I want to create it. No mention of what the file was that didn’t exist at any time.

Just not sure that . tells me enough about what I can and cannot open.

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We could change this. but at the moment it isn't actually restricted to those file types as it will happily allow you to open any file that the Dyalog editor supports.

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abrudz commented 2 years ago

Reconsider when #886 has been fixed.