Action that requires user input

[linqingfan]

May I know if there is a way to request for user input in action? A simple example would be to create a file using gedit. gedit filename where filename is provided by user before executed?

[bassmanitram]

Hey there! There is no built-in way, but an action that uses Zenity would be fairly easy to write - so here is your example...

        {
            "type": "command",
            "label": "Create a file using Gedit",
            "command_line": "name=$(zenity --entry --width 300 --title \"Create file\" --text \"File name\") && gedit \"$name\"",
            "cwd": "%d",
            "use_shell": true,
            "max_items": 1,
            "permissions": "read-write",
            "filetypes": [
                "directory"
            ]
        }

[linqingfan]

Hey there! There is no built-in way, but an action that uses Zenity would be fairly easy to write - so here is your example...

        {
            "type": "command",
            "label": "Create a file using Gedit",
            "command_line": "name=$(zenity --entry --width 300 --title \"Create file\" --text \"File name\") && gedit \"$name\"",
            "cwd": "%d",
            "use_shell": true,
            "max_items": 1,
            "permissions": "read-write",
            "filetypes": [
                "directory"
            ]
        }

It works! Thanks for the advice. I noticed there is a slight error, I just changed "%d" to "%f"

[linqingfan]

On furthur analysis, is quite puzzling why "%f" works instead of "%d". I m using the GUI under "Current working directory" option. If I use %d, when I m in /home/user/ directory, the folder directory will be in /home, 1 level up. I tried in other directory, it is always 1 level up. There is no such problem in vscode... Probably it is the problem of gedit ?

[bassmanitram]

Hey there... No actually that's correct. %d is the 'directory' of the selected item. If the selected item is your home directory the %d will be the directory it is in ... /home. %f is the full path to the selected item.

So if you want to run a command in a selected directory then current directory should be %f.

In other words my example is wrong 😁 ... sorry about that.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 05:08 linqingfan @.***> wrote:

On furthur analysis, is quite puzzling why "%f" works instead of "%d". I m using the GUI under "Current working directory" option. If I use %d, when I m in /home/user/ directory, the folder directory will be in /home, 1 level up. It tried in other directory, it is always 1 level up. There is no such problem in vscode... Probably it is the problem of gedit ?

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[linqingfan]

Thks