Jan & Lissa, I'm glad to see some of the trancriber community weighing in on this one. Lissa isn't the only one that uses non-standard extensions. They are in common use in France to distinguish between braille files encoded as North American ASCII equivalents (.brf files) and braille files encoded with a French system (.bff files, as I recall). Lissa and I had come to an agreement some time ago that her non-standard extensions could be part of the "DBT can open these" list of extensions, assuming that she doesn't mind NBP trade-secret extension lists becoming public knowledge. Or what we might aim to do is to allow a local option to define the extension list in an external file. This, in combination with George's suggestion to make the "Show files of type" list stick to its last-selected value, could make everybody happy. But I'd still need to know what is the most agreeable general list of "File extensions that DBT can open". Perhaps I should take first crack at definining it. (It's just a bit busy today.) - Peter -----Original Message----- From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of JAN CARROLL Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 11:44 AM To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [duxhelp] Re: File Open, file types Why would you want to use nonstandard file extensions. That is scarey. I also want the file extensions to be associated with its program that created it. Not sure if I am understanding this thread of extensions but I want to see DXP in print, DXB in braille and I want to be able to choose in a drop box All Files if i want. I believe 10.4 is already doing this. >>> lissa@xxxxxxx 6/11/2004 11:17:30 AM >>> No! Some of us use non-standard extensions and would hate to see them disappear from the File Open list. Lissa Peter Sullivan wrote: >Jack, > >The point I'm trying to get across on this thread is that it's very >easy to fix, but hard to define. > >At the same time, remembering the "last file extension" filter, as >George suggested, would mitigate the need to be exacting in the >definition, because users for whom the definition is overly restrictive could select "all files" >and rest assured that it would stay that way. > >- Peter > >-----Original Message----- >From: duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:duxhelp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Maartman >Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 11:12 AM >To: duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [duxhelp] Re: File Open, file types > >Definitely. Is this the same kind of behaviour we see in giants, like >MSWord or WordPerfect. Would this be easy to fix, without rewriting >the entire source code. > >Regars to all > >Jack > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ian Robinson" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: "List DBTBeta" <duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 2:54 AM >Subject: [duxhelp] File Open, file types > > > > >>Hi, >> >>The File Open dialogue currently shows all files. Does anyone else >>agree that it would be better if it only showed those file types that >>can be opened by DBT? >> >>In the event that a user does try to open, for example, a .xls file, >>no error message is displayed. The file just fails to open. >> >>Cheers. >> >>Ian >> >> >>* * * >>* This message is via list duxhelp at freelists.org. >>* To unsubscribe, send a blank message with >>* unsubscribe >>* as the subject to <duxhelp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. You may also >>* subscribe, unsubscribe, and set vacation mode and other subscription >>* options by visiting //www.freelists.org. 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