OT Annoying Dir Boxes

[Robin Becker]

In article <Xns91B4EC515D335RASXnewsDFE1 at 130.133.1.4>, Philip
Swartzleonard <starx at pacbell.net> writes
>Stephen Ferg || Wed 13 Feb 2002 09:50:00a:
>
>>> Is there a simple and easy way to allow the end-user to select a
>>> directory?  
>> 
>> I'm working on a package that I'd like to polish some more, called
>> easygui.  Go to www.ferg.org/easygui.  The function you want is called
>> dirbox().
>> 
>> If you try it, let me know how you get on... :-)
>> -- Steve Ferg
>
>This doesn't really have anything to do with this thread, but i'd like to 
>make this comment: =PLEASE= don't use the (apparently) standard directory 
>selcetion dialog in windows if you can avoid it. It can be truly 
>aggrivating when you know exactly how to type your way there, but -have- to 
>use the box... and on a reasonably crowded file system, this means 'open 
>node, scroll down, open node, scroll down' repeat-until-insane. 
>
>Ok, enough random ranting =)
>
well you are allowed to type directly into that entry widget. My problem
has always been the auto-completion character is not TAB and dosen't
cycle through possibilities.
-- 
Robin Becker