The following stacks and utilities are for free download. The stacks (open source)
can be adapted or the utilities (standalones) used for any purpose whatsoever
(including commercial) as long as it is fully understood that the author
(Robert J Warren) is not responsible for the consequences.

That said, where credit can be appropriately given to the author/howsoft.com
for inspiration or production arising from these stacks and utilities, it would be
appreciated.

The latest version of these chooser widgets offers a number of advantages over the
legacy version (see below). In addition to support for most languages of the world,
great effort has been put into improving usability.

The widgets now enable both single and multiple file choice. A "path retrograde button"
has been introduced which allows the operator to step upwards from the current folder
to the previous node in the file hierarchy. This facilitates navigation in the file system
considerably. When the operator re-calls the widgets, they now return to the previously
chosen folder by default. Appearance, size, position etc. are now achieved via the
widgets themselves: they are "self-tailoring".

Vast improvements have also been made regarding the employment of the widgets in
your program. Functions have been provided in the Demo whcih can be copied to
your own app. As a result, it takes only a few lines of code for you to call the widgets
and retrieve their output.

Full details are given at the link above.

This demo stack provides a solution for pane dragging, maintaining the mouse drag
icon in the middle of the division.

The idea is that when the operator moves the mouse over the division, the drag icon
appears, and he can then click down on the mouse button and drag the pane to where
he wants it.

These widgets for MAC OS X were produced as a result of experience (and coding)
resulting from the programming of the Linux and Windows LEGACY versions shown
above.

They were produced on an old Mac Mini (OS X Tiger 10.4) which gave up the ghost at
the very moment of completing the beta version offered here. Hopefully, they work OK
on later versions of OS X, but to date I have no feedback in this regard from users who
have downloaded the widgets.

I currently have no plans to acquire further Apple/Macintosh hardware to replace my
dead Mini, owing to its excessive price in Brazil. So Unicode versions of these MAC
OS X chooser widgets cannot be in the pipeline I'm afraid.........

Windows does not easily provide a picture chooser that can be employed in
Livecode programs. Nor does Livecode possess any kind of native widget for
handling HD tree views. The File/Folder/Picture widgets offered here were
produced with these two needs in mind. The main widget is a picture chooser,
but a matching file/folder chooser has also been provided.

These widgets were more fully developed in Linux first, and later an equivalent
pair was produced for Windows also. Using INI files, the size, position and
appearance of the widgets can be tailored according to your taste.

The download pack not only contains the two standalone widgets, but also
the stack projects. There is also a DEMO standalone/project stack to show
you clearly how to tailor the widgets (as explained above), how to call them,
and also how to retrieve the path/file information issued by them.

Linux does not easily provide a picture chooser that can be employed in
Livecode programs. Nor does Livecode possess any kind of native widget for
handling HD tree views. The File/Folder/Picture widgets offered here were
produced with these two needs in mind. The main widget is a picture chooser,
but a matching file/folder chooser has also been provided.

Using INI files, the size, position and appearance of the widgets can be tailored
according to your taste.

The download pack not only contains the two standalone widgets, but also
the stack projects. There is also a DEMO standalone/project stack to show
you clearly how to tailor the widgets (as explained above), how to call them,
and also how to retrieve the path/file information issued by them.