7.20 Object Chooser

The Object Chooser Dialog is much like the file requester described previously, and is used primarily for choosing objects when there are too many such objects to fit within a menu. It can also be used to browse the entire hierarchy of objects. In the simple choosing function, just scroll and pick the object -- double clicking to select, or using the Select button at the bottom. A name can also be typed into the field at the top of the browser.

By selecting PDP++Root/Browse, the object chooser acts more like a file browser. When you select an object, the default is to descend into the sub-objects on that object. Pressing .. will go back up a level (as in the file system). When you select an object, an edit dialog will show up for that object. This can be used for editing things that may not show up in a useful way in standard edit dialogs (e.g., the StatVal's in Stats, see @xref{proc-stat}).