Wish: File Component

With all the new plugins people are making that use reference files as an input, would it be hard to make a component that when double clicked we could browse to a file to use instead of using notes and typing in the full document path?

thanks
ryan

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Permalink Reply by to] on November 3, 2010 at 2:41pm

Hi Ryan

it is no problem,....we have written one for ecotect files only.
Sometimes it is better to limit such components just to some special filetype endings

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 3, 2010 at 3:27pm

If I added this option to the [Read File] component, would that do what you need?

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Seattle, WA

Permalink Reply by Benjamin Golder on November 3, 2010 at 8:43pm

Ideally, I think a 'file path' parameter component that would allow you to browse for files, or drag and drop to make a list would work best. For many of the Local Code plugins, we use filepaths as inputs, and I was just trying to figure out how to make such an interface for a gis import component.

As people develop more interoperability plugins, I think we will see a greater usefulness for filepath inputs.
Or if the Panel component had a drag and drop capacity to convert dropped files to file paths.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 10, 2010 at 1:21pm

Added a very generic File Path parameter (in the Params->Primitives dropdown). It allows you to select one or more files off the harddisk and it provides the full file paths as String output.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Seattle, WA

Permalink Reply by Benjamin Golder on November 10, 2010 at 6:35pm

awesome!! Thanks David!

Permalink Reply by kleerkoat on November 11, 2010 at 6:23am