Re: drop down box or something like it.

Jochen Ritzel wrote:
> Since i never even looked at the xtextedit or alias modules ( lua ftw ), 
> i might be wrong about it but i guess it's like this:
> 
> He uses something like !PopupDynamicActionFolder:!savesettings 
> MYSETTING:"$FOLDER$*/"
> %1 and %2 in the alias module are then replaced by the bang arguments, 
> which would be MYSETTING and some file in FOLDER you clicked, creating 
> something like
> 
> !execute [!setEvar MYSETTING > 
> $FOLDER$FILE_I_CLICKED.TXT][!xtextSaveEvar  $settingsFile$@ @MYSETTING@ 
> @$FOLDER$FILE_I_CLICKED.TXT@]
> 
> whatever the first '>' means, probably you'll see it in the alias docs 
> (or just a typo).
> What is does should be clear now i guess.

The ">"'s were linewrap/indent characters that got stuck in there somehow. Other 
than that, you were right on target.

> As for the regex, hmm ...
> (^%1 > \=)(.*\\)(.*\..*\=)
> 
> everything inside ( ) are captures, which in turn get assigned to \1, 
> \2, \3.
> So \3 would be what (.*\..*\=) matches, which is, "any character, as 
> often as possible, then a . then any character, as often as possible, 
> then the end of the string." ... in a string like' E:\hello\test.txt' 
> that would be 'test.txt'.
> But you'll have to learn regex and xtextedits special syntax to fully 
> understand it ( or just use the simpler lua patterns ^^ )


Or learn to speak python. Sssssssssssssss.


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