Re: [Installbase-devel] Feature idea.

[Damon C. <da...@yo...>]

    Not a bad idea. 0-]  I'll add it tonight.

    I have been thinking about re-writing the way file groups are done.
Basically, instead of creating new file groups or adding directories
recursively to a file group, the directory would simply be added as child
of the file group with a checkbox.

    You could then open the directory and see all of the children of the
directory and check or uncheck each of those files / directories.  The
default would be that everything in the directory is checked for
inclusion, and you just uncheck what you don't want installed.

    This does two things.  One, it means new files added to a directory
would automatically be added to the install.  Two, adding directories and
loading projects would be much, much faster since there's no real work to
be done, and the items are fewer.

    I proposed this change before and got no response from the mailing
list.  Does anyone have an opinion now before I start coding this?

D

> When adding a file to the install using the group file management dialog
> it always opens to the InstallBase directory the first time.
> 
> It would be great if the program looked for any files in that group and
> looked to see what path they are added from and then opened the dialog
> to that same directory.
> 
> I know that you can have files from many locations in there but if it
> just looked at the path of the first file that would save a lot of time.
> 
> Roy Souther
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