[chimerax-users] suggestion for ChimeraX on MacOS

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Alexis,

 Unfortunately the Save File browser needs options for various formats (e.g. saving an image allows you to choose a bigger image size, saving a session allows you to include density maps or just link to them, saving a PDB allows you to choose which open model you want to save...).  The native macOS file browser does not allow adding custom controls, at least not through the Qt window toolkit used by ChimeraX.  So we have to use a Qt file dialog.

 I see that the Qt file dialog (QFileDialog) does support history.  But I guess it is not integrated with the macOS native dialog file history.  But we could probably add the directories you have used within ChimeraX to the Save dialog history.  I'll make a feature request for this.

	Tom


> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:21 AM, Alexis Rohou wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I noticed that when I do "open browse", the native MacOS file browser is
> started, but when I click on File > Save..., a file browser from some
> other toolkit is used. I find this inconvenient because that file
> browser does not know about my recent history,  bookmarks, etc.
> 
> Any chance the File > Save... dialog could use the native OS file browser?
> 
> Cheers,
> Alexis
> 
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