Re: directory selection dialog

[Oliver Rauch <oliver rauch rauch-domain de>]

Hello.

Thanks to everyone who helped.

I found a solution that may be interesting for others who
also need a directory selection widget:

In gtk+-2.0 it is simple:
- add "/." to the wanted default path when setting it with
  gtk_file_selection_set_filename
- hide the selecten_entry widget:
gtk_widget_hide(GTK_FILE_SELECTION(fileselection)->selection_entry);

For gtk-1.2 it additionaly is necessary to remove the text in selection_entry:
  strncpy(filename, gtk_file_selection_get_filename(GTK_FILE_SELECTION(fileselection)),
max_len - 1);
  *(filename+strlen(filename)-strlen(
    gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY(GTK_FILE_SELECTION(fileselection)->selection_entry)))) =
'\0';

Then the fileselection dialog behaves like expected.

May be someone can need it.

Bye
Oliver

Oliver Rauch schrieb:
> 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?
>
> Thanks
> Oliver
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