Re: Customizing GtkFileChooserDialog

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 17:51 +0200, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to add some extra saving options to a GtkFileChooserDialog. In this
> purpose I'm trying to access its vbox with:
> 
> GtkWidget *label = gtk_button_new_with_label ("test");
> gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (GTK_DIALOG (file_chooser_dialog)->vbox), label);
> 
> But it has no effect and produces no error on stderr. I also tried with
> gtk_box_pack_start()

you should also show the widget. but you're better off using

  gtk_file_chooser_set_extra_widget()

which was added for this purposes.

> Can I customize it this way or must I create my dialog from scratch using
> GtkFileChooserWidget and adding extra widgets?

this is another option, but the extra widget is the preferred way.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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