Re: [Gimp-developer] Python-fu: difference between PF_FILE and PF_FILENAME, and how to ask for a file name to *create*

[Jerry Baker <jbaker gimpthoughts com>]

PF_FILENAME: Only allows the user to choose a file.
PF_DIRNAME: Only allows the user to choose a directory.

PF_FILE: Allows the user to choose a file or a directory depending on what your default string is.

If you put a '/' at the end of the default string it will prompt the user for a directory.
If you leave off the '/' at the end of the default string it will prompt the user for a file.

Examples:
(PF_FILE, "pf_afile", _("Choose File:"), "/home/jbaker"),    # Choose a file
(PF_FILE, "pf_adir", _("Choose Directory:"), "/home/jbaker/"),    # Choose a directory

or

(PF_FILE, "pf_afile", _("Choose File:"), ""),
(PF_FILE, "pf_adir", _("Choose Directory:"), "/"),

-----Original Message-----
From: Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net>
To: gimp-developer-list gnome org <gimp-developer-list gnome org>
Subject: [Gimp-developer] Python-fu: difference between PF_FILE and PF_FILENAME, and how to ask for a file name to *create*
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:44:21 +0100

I'm writing a python plugin that saves things to a file, and I'm trying 
to come up with the right parameter type to obtain a filename form the user.

There are PF_FILE and PF_FILENAME parameter types. Both correspond to a 
string with the file name in it. Furthermore the file must exist for 
both, so they cannot be used for the name of a file to be created? Why 
are there two types if they do the same thing? Am I missing something?
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