Neatest file requester?

Can anyone help me out with a file requester for use in B3D in 3d graphics mode (windowed at the moment rather than full-screen)?

I want to add a proper LOAD and SAVE option to the Stunt Race Xtreme track editor, but trying to type stuff into a black text screen looks rubbish.

What I really want I suppose is some sort of Win32 file requester that opens a window and directory in a certain folder and returns a filename to save or load from.

Any ideas anyone?

thanks
James

have a look at this: http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1562 :)

if you want a real one, try one of the free GUI's in the toolbox. most of them got an inbuild requester.

Try this one - it works exactly as it should. Read the whole thread and take note of the recommended modifications though.

http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=916

hm, i thought he needs one for fullscreen...hm

anyway, for windowed mode, there's nothing better than blitzsys, since this dll gives you alot more than just a filerequester!

http://www.melog.ch/dl/blitzsys_v105.zip

Except WinBlitz, that is.


All this time, and still noone knows :(


Yep, BlitzSys has a nice filerequester :)

While I agree that Blitzsys and WinBlitz3D are great - I regularly use both myself - the code archive file requester I linked to above (once modified slightly as instructed) is actually better than the ones provided by those systems.

Firstly, it appears at the top left of the parent window's client area rather than the top left of the screen, but more importantly it maintains its focus if you click outside of it. In other words it behaves EXACTLY like the file requesters in 'proper' applications which makes it seem that bit more professional. Compare them all and you'll see what I mean.

sorry, joegr, but i couldn't get your filerequester to work properly! the savefile-requester seems to work, but the openfile-requester opens every 2nd call only...played around with it multiple times, the example seems to work, but within my projects it doesn't. blitzsys works fine, so this was my choice.

regarding to winblitz: hm, tried it a long time ago. at that time it didn't worked really well either...and looked like windows 3.11 o_O.
haven't tied it yet again, because i thought development was canceled...nor can't i find it in the toolbox. sorry.

OK, I'm going to use Blitzsys - it's very easy to use and works perfectly for what I need.

thanks people :)

Ojay, look further down that thread, theres a replacement function that fixes your openfile problem

BTW, this does NOT work in fullscreen.

I need one too :)