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Is there one before I start hacking filenav

Filenav doesn't actually use dialogs. At one point I think it tries to import dialogs to check whether it's running on the 1.6 beta, and if so it... loads the icon for the .Trash folder. Why I didn't use os.path.exists there I have no idea.

@JonB's uidir.py works find for my needs. Just found it. Always look in uicomponents first. He probably build it.

uidir was a temporary hack that i always intended to improve upon... it is quite buggy, for instance i think when you reach a folder that it can't access it gets horribly confused. Also the back button is dodgy at best. You are welcome to make it better, but i wouldn't rely on it for anything important!

So I've noticed. Need to see how filnav behaves.

There's a simplified version in the filenav repo that does only folder navigation and nothing else. That is based on the first public version of filenav, so the under-the-hood code is much more simple than it is currently.

i fixed a few of the longstanding bugs in uidir -- getFile now works as it should without using the setter option, although from within a callback you'd want to pass in a setter method, which gets called when the user selects a folder. Back buttons don't screw things up anymore, and unreachable folders now just display an error, rather than staying unreachable. I also added quick buttons for the pylib folder and Documents folder.