Re: file selection usage question

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

 I don't see where you do a gtk_widget_show on the file selection. -- Also,
where is the code that handles the OK or Cancel button press on the file
selection ?

 Maybe that's what you are missing.

Harring


--- Dimitar Haralanov <mitko tahoenetworks com> wrote:
>       Hi, I am new to this list and to GTK so, please, excuse me if the my
> question is dumb!! I tried search the archive for an answer but did not
> find one...
>
>       I have a small app where one of the buttons is a save button. The
> callback creates the file_selection window and the ok button in the file
> selection window, sets a variable to the selected filename.
>
>       I am having a problem in not being able to make the save callback
> (which after creating the fileselection window, calls the save function)
> wait for the fileselection to finish. I don't know whether I am making
> myself clear here so let me give some code:
>
> void
> on_save_button_clicked                 (GtkButton       *button,
>                                         gpointer         user_data)
> {
>   gchar *text = NULL;
>   GList *children;
>   GtkWidget *current_page;
>
>   fileselection = create_fileselection ();
>   D_PRINT(filename);
>   current_page = gtk_notebook_get_nth_page (GTK_NOTEBOOK (notebook),                  
>              gtk_notebook_get_current_page (GTK_NOTEBOOK (notebook)));
>   children = gtk_container_children (GTK_CONTAINER (current_page));
>   if (GTK_IS_TEXT (children->data))
>     text = gtk_editable_get_chars(GTK_EDITABLE(children->data), 0,
>                                 gtk_text_get_length(GTK_TEXT(children->data)));
>   scratch_save_page_to_file (filename, text, FILE_MODE_NEW);
> }
>
>       In this code, the fileselection is created but the execution of the
> callback continues. I would like to make it wait until the fileselection
> window is closed.
>
>       Any ideas? Thanx in advance for you help!!
>
>               -- Mitko
>
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Harring Figueiredo

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