Re: file choosing manager is not behaving normal

[Harm Hamberg <h hamberg dynamicc-welding biz>]

Hello,

I think you have the same bug we had. There seems to be a problem in 
gnome-vfs. A work-around is to set the gconf key 
/desktop/gnome/interface/file_chooser_backend from gnome-vfs to gtk+.
That should fix the problem.

oedipus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was working at an application and suddenly the file choosing manager is
> not open right. Usuall it shows the path and its containing files of the
> working folder. But now it is somehow hanging up and waiting. As it is not
> launched completly. This never happened before? And I can somehow not
> reconstruct how I got to that. 
>
> My code for the file manager looks like that:
> Glib::ustring::ustring dialog::get_messurment_data_dlg_open()
> {
> 	Gtk::FileChooserDialog dlg("Please choose a file",
> Gtk::FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_OPEN);
> 	
> 	dlg.add_button(Gtk::Stock::CANCEL, Gtk::RESPONSE_CANCEL);
> 	dlg.add_button("Select", Gtk::RESPONSE_OK);
> 	
> 	// Filter 
> 	Gtk::FileFilter filter_imr;
> 	filter_imr.set_name("IMR files");
> 	filter_imr.add_pattern("*.imr");
> 	dlg.add_filter(filter_imr);
> 	
> 	Gtk::FileFilter filter_any;
> 	filter_any.set_name("Any files");
> 	filter_any.add_pattern("*");
> 	dlg.add_filter(filter_any);
> 	
> 	result = dlg.run();	
> 	switch (result)
> 	{
> 		case (Gtk::RESPONSE_OK) :
> 						choosen_file = dlg.get_filename();
> 						break;
> 		case (Gtk::RESPONSE_CANCEL) :
> 						choosen_file = "none";
> 						break; 
> 		default:
> 						choosen_file = "none";
> 						break; 
> 	}
> 	return (choosen_file);
> }
>