hey,

id like to be able to have a folder in a popup list its contents, but when i click on one of them, make it do something other than open the file. is this doable dynamically, ie, so that i dont have to edit the popup.rc every time something new is added to the folder?

i should elaborate.. id like to display a folder full of desktop backgrounds, and be able to just click on them to change the said wallpaper.. all without having to include a referance to each and every image file in the folder.

you can do this with a file scanning module, and a textediting module,

I think scandir and xTextedit should work.

You need scandir to use xTextedit to write *Popup lines for all your wallpapers.

cheers, might try that.

btw, thanks for dark.space... used it for over a year :)

Actually, no xTextEdit necessary, but you do need a wallpaper module. ScanDir will write to the file for you.

I liked this question, so I put it together. Here's how:


Then, in a popup, you would add:


TestPath points to the folder containing the walls, and TestOutputFile points to the file to write to, which you will "include" in to the popup. Oddly, both Path and OutputFile didn't like quotes around the path.

Think I'll do something like this for a theme... With comdlgls-0.7 some cool file and folder selecting would be easy enough, too. =)

(This would be a handy reference thread for the Code forum, imo.)

I did the same sort of thing with xpopup and a vbscript, and tossed in a "random wallpaper" feature as well.

ahhh, cool! that would be a good instalerless theme switcher too!

ps: DarkSPace did rock eh...

wow! thanks xcal, worked a treat!

Check out lsplus, it has wallpaper and theme changing via right click menu.