Re: directory listing

["Sreenidhi.B.G" <nidhi ncoretech com>]

thanks a lot,
-sreenidhi,


Joergen Scheibengruber wrote:

> Am Don, 2001-12-20 um 14.57 schrieb Sreenidhi.B.G:
> > Hi all,
> > is there a way to scan the current directory and get the filenames ,
> > runtime. I cannot afford to create and display widget, get the selection
> > and then use "gtk_get_selection_file_name", I'm looking for some way
> > (API) to get me the filenames in the current directory,
> > thanks
> >
> > -sreenidhi
>
> Hi! here is something i did once in a app, i think you can use it:
>
> #include <dirent.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
>
> /* you need to include this */
>
> DIR *dir;
> gchar *directory, *tmp;
> GList *list;
>
> /* variables */
>
> if ((dir = opendir(directory)) == NULL)
>                 return NULL;
>
> list = NULL;
>
>
> while (( dir_info = readdir(dir)) != NULL)
> {
>         tmp = g_strjoin("/", directory, dir_info->d_name, NULL);
>         list = g_list_append(list, (gpointer)tmp);
> }
> closedir(dir);
>
> list = g_list_sort(list, (GCompareFunc)g_strcasecmp);
>
> /* Thats it all files (with full path) from directory in a sorted GList
> :-) */
>
> Maybe there is a function in gnome-vfs that does something similiar, so
> you should look there, too...
>
> Greetings,
> Jörgen
>
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