[chimera-dev] compression

[Eric Pettersen]

On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 09:43 AM, Thomas Goddard wrote:
>   Could you add a canDecompress option to chimera.fileInfo.register()?
> This will be set true or false when extensions register a new file
> type and will indicate whether the file opening routine can handle
> compressed files.

Hi Tom,
	I'm guessing that you've decided that using osUncompressedPath in the 
extension code is unsatisfactory and you are therefore asking for this 
keyword.  Which implies that the behavior you want is that for file 
types where 'canDecompress' is false, the open panel won't show 
compressed versions of that file type.  Am I right?  This leads to the 
possibly-surprising behavior of the open panel showing compressed files 
for some types and not others.  Perhaps we should discuss this as group 
on Monday?

--Eric