Re: gtk.filechooser problems...

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

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Yaa101 <yaa101 xs4all nl> wrote:
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> //\  Regards, Groeten,
> V_/_ Bas Burger.
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> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:01:32 -0400
> "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
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>> ( First of all, Florian, please try to reply on-list :) )
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> Florian probably replied sender instead of reply all, so I corrected
> it...
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>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Yaa101 <yaa101 xs4all nl> wrote:
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>> > So what you say is that all the widgets from GKT+ itself are
>> > offlimit for us gjs users?
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>> 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.
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>> > Shame, now I have to finish my selfmade filechooser, I started on
>> > that after I tried the Gtk.fileChooser for the first time.
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>> You shouldn't have to. Why do you want to launch a Gtk.FileChooser
>> from a gnome-shell extension?
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> Because I have a settings dialog with my extension and in there a user
> has to fill a directory setting, so my thinking was, why not let a
> user choose a directory instead of having that user fill in a
> potentially wrong path.
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> I am 3/4 there, the dialog works well but misses the places listbox yet.
> That is why the questions of a scrolling table in the other mail.

Again, preferences should be done with the new preferences mechanism.

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>> > 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?
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>> >> Note that there is
>> >> support for extension preferences, which run in a separate process.
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>> Please see my blog post at:
>> http://blog.mecheye.net/2012/02/more-extension-api-breaks/
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>> 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?
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> No none, only one not working extension (called Media player indicator)
> has a blue button (with a tools icon) in front of it, but it does not
> do anything.

Are you using Debian?

> I go read your post... So much to learn still...
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>> > 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.
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>> > --
>> > (o_
>> > //\  Regards, Groeten,
>> > V_/_ Bas Burger.
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>> > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:50:42 +0200
>> > Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org> wrote:
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>> >> 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.
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>> >> 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