Re: File Chooser Dialog: display only files with chosen extensions

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 17:04 +0530, vijayasarathy setsindia net wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hey friend,
> 
> Thanks for that suggestion ...I did try adding file filter and associating
> the filter with the file dialog.
> 
> 
> Here is the code I tried:
> 
> **********************************START CODE CHUNK *************************
> 
> GtkFileFilter *filefilter;//For filtering only exe files into
> GtkWidget *wdgt_filechooser;//pointer for creating filechooser dialog box
> 
> //Create and configure filter
> filefilter = gtk_file_filter_new();
> 
> gtk_file_filter_set_name(filefilter,(const gchar *)"exe filter");
> //Add mime type "exe" to created filter.
> gtk_file_filter_add_pattern(filefilter,(const gchar
> *)"application/octet-stream");

gtk_file_filter_add_pattern is for shell-style glob matches. You could
either use gtk_file_filter_add_mime_type or
gtk_file_filter_add_pattern(filefilter, "*.exe").

> 	//create file chooser dialog box
> 	wdgt_filechooser = create_ui_filechooser();
> 
> 	//Add filter to the dialog box
> 	gtk_file_chooser_add_filter((GtkFileChooser *)wdgt_filechooser,filefilter);
> 	//Show file chooser dialog box
> 	gtk_widget_show(wdgt_filechooser);
> 
> *****************************END CODE CHUNK ********************************
> 
> This just didnt work out ...Only sub-folders in respective folders are
> being showed ...nothing else !!
> 
> 
> Help pls...

Armin

> Vijay
> On Sat, January 12, 2008 4:18 pm, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> >
> 
> > vijayasarathy setsindia net wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>
> >> Is it possible that we can let a GtkFileChooserDialog object [file
> >> chooser dialog] to display only files of specific extensions, for
> >> example, display only exe files in the navigated folder ?
> >>
> >
> > Certainly. You have to create GtkFileFilter's. See these links:
> >
> >
> > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkFileChooser.html#gtk-file-
> > chooser-add-filter
> > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/gtk-gtkfilefilter.html#GtkFil
> > eFilter
> >
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