How to force GenericDirCtrl to show hidden and system files and dirs ???

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Hi !

I have a program. I need to enable users to select directory.
But

wxGenericDirCtrl

don’t show system/hidden files ?

How to I force it ?

And if not possible, how to I replace with a component that do it ?

I use Windows XP, wxPy last version.

Thanx for help: dd

2

Dara Durum wrote:

Hi !

I have a program. I need to enable users to select directory.
But

    wxGenericDirCtrl

don't show system/hidden files ?

How to I force it ?

I don't think that it can be.

And if not possible, how to I replace with a component that do it ?

wx.GenericDirCtrl is just a simple wrapper around a wx.TreeCtrl with some code for scanning directories on demand as nodes in the tree are expanded.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006, 7:13:47 PM, Robin Dunn wrote:

Dara Durum wrote:

Hi !

I have a program. I need to enable users to select directory.
But

    wxGenericDirCtrl

don't show system/hidden files ?

How to I force it ?

I don't think that it can be.

It can! The following works for me:

  my_dir = wx.GenericDirCtrl(self, wx.ID_ANY,
                             dir = "c:\\",
                             filter="All files (*.*)|*.*")
  my_dir.ShowHidden(True)

And if not possible, how to I replace with a component that do it ?

It seems that it's possible. But if you want to try another control,
download GenericWinDirCtrl from
<http://j.domaindlx.com/elements28/wxpython/GenericWinDirCtrl.html&gt;
and create it passing a DIRCTRL_SHOW_HIDDEN style.

-- tacao

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