Re: directory selection dialog

[Anita Dixit <anitad mahindrabt com>]

Hi ,

There is a widget GtkDirTree which is available in GtkExtra package.
GtkDirTree provides listing of directories.

Hope it helps.

-Anita

Ed Sweetman wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 18:19, Oliver Rauch wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I am looking for a directory selection dialog,
> > comparable to gtk_fileselction.
> >
> > Although it is possible to use gtk_fileselection_*
> > to select directories (I hide the file selection box)
> > the behaviour is not very intuitive.
> >
> > When you click a "directory" once then you get the following:
> >
> > Selection: /first/part/of/the/path
> >   "directory"
> >
> > and the returned path is:
> >
> > /first/part/of/the/path/"directory"
> >
> >
> > This often confuses the users because it would make more
> > sense that the returned path is the path listed in
> > the "Selection" part. The lower text box does not
> > make sense for selecting directories.
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to change the behaviour of gtk_fileselection
> > for selecting directories or is there an other widget/window
> > to do this?
>
> I have a problem similar to this. I would like directories and files to
> be selectable...But when trying to select a directory, and not a file
> and pressing ok, it returns the path to the current directory but
> nothing else.
> It doesn't seem you are able to return a directory name when chosen...
>
> If this isn't possible, how would one go about having a "directory only"
> selection box like Oliver wants.  Or rather...instead of having the file
> selector box split directory and file, have directory listed at the top
> of a list of files and the files underneath where they're both treated
> the same way when pressing ok or Enter on the "selected file area" but
> when you double click them in the list it will either do nothing or
> enter the directory and of course you can have a list of files or
> directories selected.
>
> That method makes sense to me but I'm betting i'd have to create the
> widget from the ground up to do that .  heh.
>
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