Re: gtk.filechooser problems...

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

( First of all, Florian, please try to reply on-list :) )

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Yaa101 <yaa101 xs4all nl> wrote:
>
> So what you say is that all the widgets from GKT+ itself are offlimit
> for us gjs users?

Not all GTK+ widgets are off-limits. Just new top-level windows. And
that's not for gjs users, that's only when running gnome-shell
extensions, as they run in-process.

> Shame, now I have to finish my selfmade filechooser, I started on that
> after I tried the Gtk.fileChooser for the first time.

You shouldn't have to. Why do you want to launch a Gtk.FileChooser
from a gnome-shell extension?

> I thought it was my coding that made the lockup, so I tried to create a
> js filechooser, today I tried to revisit the attempt on Gtk.fileChooser
> as I made a lot of progress last 2 weeks on gjs.
>
> Can you explain more about the following?
>
>> Note that there is
>> support for extension preferences, which run in a separate process.

Please see my blog post at:
http://blog.mecheye.net/2012/02/more-extension-api-breaks/

Basically, you create a file called 'prefs.js', which inside of it has
a function named 'buildPrefsWidget', which returns some form of
GtkWidget. Some extensions already have preferences -- go to your
Installed Extensions on the website. Do any extensions have a green
preferences icon next to them?

> I am asking all these (maybe obvious for you) questions because I have
> no prior background with GKT+, so besides learning gnome-shell I have
> to learn also the core GTK+ stuff.
>
>
> --
> (o_
> //\  Regards, Groeten,
> V_/_ Bas Burger.
>
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:50:42 +0200
> Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 16, 2012 6:39 PM, "Yaa101" <yaa101 xs4all nl> wrote:
>> > I am trying to call a filechooser, run it, then get the filename
>> > from it.
>>
>> You can only open override-redirect windows from the window manager
>> itself, which means you cannot use most of GTK+. Note that there is
>> support for extension preferences, which run in a separate process.
>>
>> Florian
>
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  Jasper