Add icon-button to specific actions to open file dialogs

[humdingerb]

Add icon-button to specific actions to open file dialogs

[owenca]

I need to learn how to implement an icon button first. What documentation and existing code should I look at?

[humdingerb]

Never done it myself, but it looks quite straight forward, see BButton's SetIcon().
How to get to the icon data from the ressources, see GetIcon() of Filer's HelpTab.

Apps like BePDF and Koder use this I-O-M file. Filer should too, to fit it.

[owenca]

Thanks! I thought there was an undocumented class BIconButton derived from BButton because the icon buttons are much smaller than a regular button.

So pretty much implement a button like the "Add..." button in the AutoFiler tab and then set the icon to the .iom icon file?

[humdingerb]

Yes, I think so. I expect you can use a smaller button, like you did with the +/- buttons in the rules window. Here's an example of SetIcon() in the Haiku source: http://xref.plausible.coop/source/xref/haiku/src/servers/print/ConfigWindow.cpp#351

[owenca]

A 'Save' File dialog for:

• Add to archive

I think it should be an Open file panel. A Save file panel has an extra text control for editing the name of the selected file and is often used for "Save as...".

[humdingerb]

Indeed. That suggestion was from before we (or I...) realized that Filer always deals with single files and its file name determines the ZIP archive's name. So, Open panel it is.

[humdingerb]

Merged!