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Example: Connect the script

Example: Write a script No tip for this topic No example for this topic Work with attribute values using the Subpart Features Syntax tool

To run the script in DirectoryView, you must connect it to the view's Push Button, Text, and Multiple Select List parts:

  1. Click on the Composition Editor icon in the lower-right of the Script Editor to return to the Composition Editor.
  2. Click mouse button 2 on the Push Button part to open its pop-up menu. (On UNIX, use mouse button 3.)
  3. Select Connect > clicked.
  4. Click on the free-form surface; then select Event to Script.
  5. In the displayed window, select the getFilesFromDir:to: script and then OK.

Now, make two more connections so the script can get the directory specified in the text field and then display the file names in the list:

  1. Connect the object attribute of the Text part to parameter1 of the clicked-getFilesFromDir:to: connection.
  2. Connect parameter2 of the clicked-getFilesFromDir:to: connection to the items attribute of the Multiple Select List part.

To select the parameters, pop up the menu for the clicked-getFilesFromDir:to: connection, and select Connect then select the parameter.

Select Test to test your work. After you press Show, you should see the files in the specified directory in the list pane:
Directory list window


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