Bug #2847 Many options on the Startup Variables section should have a File Dialog
Submitted: 17 Feb 2004 15:34 Modified: 27 Dec 2006 9:09
Reporter: Harrison Fisk Email Updates:
Status: Can't repeat Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Administrator Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:1.0.1a OS:Windows (Windows XP)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[17 Feb 2004 15:34] Harrison Fisk
Description:
There are many options which require putting in either a directory or file name.   These options should have a file dialog to make it easier to pick which one you want.  
A few examples of the options are:
base_dir
tmpdir
datadir
ft_stopword_file
innodb_data_home_dir
innodb_log_group_home_dir

These options all require you to pick a file/directory and would be much easier if they had a possibility of using a file chooser.  This would only work when doing things locally of course, but since you can currently only edit my.cnf files locally, that shouldn't be a problem.

How to repeat:
Check out the Startup Variables options.  
Try to remember the name of a really long directory name and type it in correctly.

Suggested fix:
N/A
[27 Dec 2006 9:09] Sveta Smirnova
Thank you for the report.

These features have implemented already.