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### 5.4 Using the file selector

In those situations where it is necessary to specify a file name, all of the VICE emulators will pop up a file selector window allowing you to select or specify a file interactively.

To the left of the file selector, there is a list of ancestor directories: by clicking on them, you can ascend the directory tree. To the right, there is a list of the files in the current directory; files can be selected by clicking on them. If you click on a directory, that directory becomes the current one; if you click on an ordinary file, it becomes the active selection.

At the top, there is a directory box, with the complete path of the current directory, and a file name box, with the name of the currently selected file. At the bottom there are two buttons: “OK” confirms the selected file and “Cancel” abandons the file selector without cancelling the operation.

It is also possible to specify what files you want to show in the file selector by writing an appropriate shell-like pattern in the directory box; e.g., ‘`~/*.[dx]64`’ will only show files in the home directory whose name ends with either `.d64` or with `.x64`.