[lazarus] TFileListBox, TDirectoryListBox, TDriveComboBox

[Samuel Liddicott]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: P Jean dit Bailleul [mailto:jdb at abacom.com]
> Sent: 17 August 1999 05:15 AM
> To: lazarus at miraclec.com
> Subject: Re: [lazarus] TFileListBox, TDirectoryListBox, TDriveComboBox
>
>
> At 21:07 16/08/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >I would add them and see if you could make them useful somehow.
>
> Drive return a Char so it not possible to use it to indicate the mounted
> device (4 characters) corresponding to the actual directory. Even under
> windows, i don't think many people use it since it does not support UNC
> files names.
> I cam make a new property device corresponding to the mounted device under
> linux and to the UNC names under windows.

I think it is good to distinguish between obviously different drives like
floppy, CDROM and "hard disks", but not good to distinguish between
different hard disks, for the user can't be expected to know one from the
other anyway.

This may involve tricky API stuff to locate removable/network (nfs/smbmount)
drives

Sam