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Old 06-16-2017, 09:54 AM   #52
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Originally Posted by vitalker View Post
Yeah. Reaper needs reconstruction. All the elements should be:
1. skinnable
2. os-independent.
Then, and only then, will we have a solution.
That's the other problem, Reaper can't do that without writing the entire dialog from scratch which has caveats. If you want an idea, see the media browser which is essentially a homebrewed browse dialog minus the dialog part. IOW, if it were a 20 minute job, that media explorer would have worked and looked fantastic on day one.

I also noticed from some quick coding, it isn't just legacy, it's the fact it is a browser folder dialog period so my legacy comments before don't apply - I was thinking of a truly older method. The only thing Cockos can do is ground up one (not ideal, honestly) or hack the fileopen or savefile dialog both of which are more refined but I'll predict there will be at least one caveat there too based on solving this same issue in my own apps. They can also possibly pass a param to show a textbox on the existing one.

I did notice the existing one is resizeable which I'd suggest doing for now as it makes navigation much easier.
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