[Lazarus] GetAllFilesMask / AllFilesMask

waldo kitty wkitty42 at windstream.net
Sun Apr 28 22:33:49 CEST 2013


On 4/28/2013 12:33, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> On 28-4-2013 18:04, waldo kitty wrote:
>> On 4/28/2013 08:23, Bart wrote:
>>> But you must consider the end user.
>>> If on Windows someone types *.* in my program, he expects to find all
>>> files,
>>
>> and yet those average joe windows users do not and are very unaware that
>> they are not finding all files...
>
> So what *would* the average Joe type and how is that handled right now?

they would most likely use *.* because that's all they are used to using... they 
would remain oblivious to the files they miss with that mask, though... unless 
they are explicitly aware of one/some in particular they are looking for...

as they say, ignorance is bliss...

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