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Build ID: I20070821 The DirectoryFieldEditor and FileFieldEditor classes are proving to be very useful. One problem I have is that the method to browse to and find a file or directory can be very time consuming. A good amount of the time is me trying to remember what I am looking for at the moment, but also following long paths can take some time. Generally, I use these editors to switch back and forth between the same 4 or 5 files or paths. It would therefore be a useful enhancement to allow the use of a Combo instead of just a Text field. The Combo box could store a configurable number of choices as a history of the files/directories previously selected. The browse button could be used to add a new choice to the list and set it as the first item. This effect would be something similar to how the PDE target platform preference works now. Also important, the combo box should allow copy/paste to add paths and files. If I have a path opened in windows explorer, copy/paste is much faster than browse. I would also want to default the combo to some predefined list.
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