• Hibbs
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Topic: File dialog box

Many times I want to enter the name of a data file that is quite long. Typing it in is a pain, and the data files all have different names. A standard file dialog box would be nice. I believe it is available for the windows version? But I use a Mac. In a different fortran you got the standard file dialog box just be setting the file name to a null string in the Open statement. It was really nice.

Could you please add this feature to the Mac version?

Unless its available in some way I have not found, in which case: How do i do it?

  • jeff
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Re: File dialog box

The AppGraphics library on Windows does offer access to file dialogs from Fortran, but it isn't integrated with the Fortran OPEN statement at all. 

I could probably devise a way to wrap an Objective-C call to request the macOS file dialog and return a name, but it might be tricky.  I would need to look into it.  But we don't have any plans to implement an AppGraphics-like interface on macOS, unfortunately.

Jeff Armstrong
Approximatrix, LLC