Os x file open dialog

Improve this answer. Graham Graham 2, 1 1 gold badge 16 16 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Once the hidden files are visible, you can type the filename and it will be selected. Alternatively, I suggest a third-party app like LaunchBar. Once the hidden files are visible, you should be able to type-to-select. It's awesome. Show 5 more comments. I didn't realize it wouldn't let you enter the exact file in the dialog I don't use it very often myself.

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Featured on Meta. When the Save sheet appears, however, a pop-up menu shows you precisely where Mac OS X proposes putting your newly created document: in the Documents folder of your own Home folder. For many people, this is an excellent suggestion. But the Where pop-up menu gives you direct access to some other places you might want to save a newly created file.

They include:. Just type a name for the file, choose Desktop from this pop-up menu, and then click Save. You can also simply press. Instead, the newly minted document will be waiting for you on the desktop when you quit your program or close its window. From there, you can drag it manually into any folder you like. You can click anywhere on the pop-up menu, such as where it says Documents. Choosing this item from the pop-up menu or pressing Shift-. Mac service Section All of this takes a considerable amount of time, even if you have a high-speed connection like a cable modem or DSL.

Favorite Places. This part of the pop-up list is a duplicate of the Favorites menu in the Finder, which is described in Chapter 2. Recent Places. Once again, the idea is to provide quick access to the folder locations on your hard drive that matter to you—without excessive navigation. When you save a file, the options in the Where pop-up menu have you covered 90 percent of the time. Most people work with a limited set of folders for active documents.

Click the large black triangle shown in Figure After a moment, a familiar scene appears: a compact version of a Finder-window column view, as described in Section 1.

Your first instinct should be to widen this window, making more columns available. Do so by carefully dragging the lower-right corner of the dialog box. Mac OS X will remember the size you like for this Save sheet independently in each program. Now, using many of the same techniques described in Section 1. For example, press the right and left arrow keys to navigate the columns, or the up and down arrow keys to highlight the disk and folder names within a column.

Highlight the name of the folder in which you want to save your newly created document, or use these options:. Active 1 year, 9 months ago. Viewed 5k times. Lyudmil Lyudmil 1, 2 2 gold badges 13 13 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. Which framework are you using to show an OpenGL window?

The answer will depend on that. Are you using GLUT? Or what? Thank you for your response. In the code it's just a function that returns the path to the file the user selected but the dialog is handled by the OS. I was hoping to find something similar for OS X. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Rob Napier Rob Napier k 34 34 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Yuji Yuji Most useful for this problem is GLUTWindow, since it gives you the handle you the objects you'll need to run a sheet.