Re: File Selection Dialog filter

[Maciej Katafiasz <mnews22 wp pl>]

Dnia 11-10-2004, pon o godzinie 14:43 -0500, Kevin E.Gilbert napisał:
> I am porting my openMotif code to gtk and I need a file selection dialog
> with options for the user to chose the type of file to be read and also to
> filter files by extension. This is pretty standard stuff in Windows and
> Motif but I can't find an example with gtk. Has anyone published such a
> widget or a method for extending the standard file selection dialog to do
> this? We read over 20 different file formats and write nearly that many.

Yes, that's standard ability of GtkFileChooser, available since GTK+
2.4. For earlier versions, there's only GtkFileSelection, which sadly
can't do that out-of-the-box, and you need to hack it manually in

Cheers,
Maciej

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