Dear Robert Covington,

indeed I was wrong...

Just had a look at my code and now I remember what happen during its development:
I stumbled over the following Text that Apple supplies with its NavServices SDK:

"Navigation Services requires Mac OS 8.5 or newer.
...
The Navigation shared library version 1.0 for OS releases prior to Mac OS 8.5
is no longer available."

For that reason I decided not to support Mac OS 8.1 and older.

>>with respect to NavServices you may have a look at the source code of my
>>"CharXpander":
>>http://stazsoftware.com/fb_ex10.html
>
>>As far as I remember the file object lists for the file dialog are functional
>>under OS8.1 _and_ OS8.6. I didn't test it under OS 9.x yet. My approach is
>>different from the one Staz et al. are using.

>Got it.
>Your demo app won't work as downloaded, I need the Classic ( for OS 8.1).

OK, the Classic version of "CharXpander" doesn't use NavServices.

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Mea culpa (see above). :-(
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>Unfortunately I can't get the Nav Services dialog to work with a typelist
>on 8.1 using your dialog FN either, and changed list types. Even using the
>original list types. But that is with a hacked out approach. The Classic
>demo app would be a better test. If you can email me that one, I can test
>to see if your file list works here with 8.1.

> :(

>I will just make Nav things < 8.5 disabled for my apps until life changes
>for the better.

Actually, this is what I obviously decided to do, but I supply two versions of
the application...

>They really are so much slower to build and access, I can't
>really prefer the Nav approach.  I can pick 2 files using the older
>versions in the time it takes to build one Nav Services dialog. The
>favorites seem nice though.

Saving works fine, just the open is a problem with OS 8.1 I think.

rc

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>>Dear experts,

>Stop it.

>Do you have the right list? :)

Sure, advice from experts is what we want and what we get from the list -- at
least most often... :-)
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Best

Herbie
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