Getting a list of directories

[Tom Collins]

I have a macro that searches a directory on disk for some information, and I'd like to prompt the user for that directory name - kinda like PickFile(), but allow them to pick a directory instead.  It doesn't seem like there's a built-in way to do that in TSE, which seems crazy to me.  I did stumble across an undocumented PickDir() function, but I have no idea what the (string,integer,integer,integer,integer) function parameters are for.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

[knud van eeden]

what about running the

Where

TSE macro.

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Knud van Eeden

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[Tom Collins]

I don't need to get a list of files, I need to get a directory name.  And then I run my own search against some of the files in that directory.

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[Carlo Hogeveen]

An old macro from 2003 that does exactly what you describe:
https://ecarlo.nl/tse/ToolsAndExtensions.html#PickDir

For reasons unknown neither Sammy nor I published this on a website.
Compatible with Windows only.
Linux TSE started a year after this macro.
I will look into why it does not function in Linux.

Carlo

[Tom Collins]

Thanks!  If I have some time in the next few days, I'll poke at it and see if I can fix the Windows-isms and post the results.

Tom

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[Carlo Hogeveen]

In v1.1 I made PickDir Linux-compatible and fixed two bugs:
https://ecarlo.nl/tse/ToolsAndExtensions.html#PickDir
Carlo

[zhong zhao]

Windows:(All folders on D:\ save to  d:\all_folders_on_D.txt)

    cmd /c dir D:\*.* /b /s  /ad >d:\all_folders_on_D.txt

Linux: (All folders on / save to  ~/all_folders.txt  )
    sudo find / -name '*' -type d >~/all_folders.txt

[knud van eeden]

FYI:

The download is not possible out of the box.

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Knud van Eeden

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[knud van eeden]

1. Note: Issue: Compiling the program with latest TSE for Linux version 4.50.13 on Linux WSL Ubuntu works,

but running it does not do anything.

See second screenshot.

2. The out of the box solution for that on TSE Microsoft Windows.

    BrowseDir()

See also first screenshot.

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STRING PROC FNStringGetInputFileDirectoryS( STRING titleS, STRING directoryBeginS )

 RETURN( BrowseDir( titleS, directoryBeginS ) )

END

PROC Main()

 STRING s1[255] = "C:\TMP" // change this

 s1 = FNStringGetInputFileDirectoryS( "directory = ", s1 )

 Warn( s1 )

END

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[Tom Collins]

1. Can confirm Knud's observation that Carlo's PickDir macro file isn't downloadable from his site as of right now.

2. The (undocumented) BrowseDir("hello", "/tmp") doesn't seem to do anything on my Linux install.

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[Carlo Hogeveen]

I fixed the PickDir download error.
https://ecarlo.nl/tse/ToolsAndExtensions.html#PickDir
Thanks to all who reported it.

Carlo

[Tom Collins]

Carlo's PickDir() macro works great!  The only change I'd make is to prefix directory names with a slash or backslash, since it's not 100% obvious when first looking at the list that you're only seeing directories.  Thank you for the help!

Tom

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[Carlo Hogeveen]

> Carlo's PickDir() macro works great!

And Sammy's! He wrote the first version and most of it.

> The only change I'd make is to prefix directory names with a slash or backslash,

That would solve it, because files start after a slash too.

> since it's not 100% obvious when first looking at the list that you're only seeing directories.

That is a bit of a problem.
The title could be improved to "Pick a directory:".
Brighter ideas elude me at the moment.

Carlo