<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 2020-07-23, at 8:36 PM, Chris Muller <<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com" class="">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">It depends on how many and how deep the directories you have, and what kind of HD they're on. </blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Yes, I guess the directory tree traversing might take a long time in some cases; which in itself is probably sometihng deserving some profiling. Also one might consider a better navigation idiom than the rather (over, in my opinion) extensive "all the subdirectories of my parent directory and up we go" approach. It is (was) a *major* pain for RISC OS because of the expectation of multiple filing systems related to devices that have to try to spin up CDs etc just to decide whether there is a root there. But that just opens up a long complaint about the appalling state of filename handling.<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> But another few seconds quickly accumulates simply from having to grab the mouse just to regain focus on the field where I can type the filename. </blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>The keyboard focus is in the text field immediately the dialogue is opened, so that ought not be a problem. I guess if it really has taken multiple seconds to build the directory tree morph then one might have moved the mousse around in that time and changed that?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The thing that I suspect would make a lot of people happy and have uses in many dialogue related situations is the building of a collapsing dialogue section. We had some discussion of the idea a while back and Marcel tried a few ideas. The dialogue ought to open with a label, the text field and an 'click me for more' icon - something vaguely like this -</div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="180E1C9A-ED66-4E00-914C-ECE53D8919B6" src="cid:57149B36-BED7-4772-B1BC-C4E492F73D58@(null)" class=""></div><div class="">Clicking the down-caret would open it up to a full directory handling tree widget. I believe this would be a major improvement.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">tim<br class="">--<br class="">tim Rowledge; <a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" class="">tim@rowledge.org</a>; <a href="http://www.rowledge.org/tim" class="">http://www.rowledge.org/tim</a><br class="">Fractured Idiom:- HASTE CUISINE - Fast French food<br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>