Re: Suggesting file extension in GtkFileChooser Save dialogs?

[Thomas Klausner <tk giga or at>]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:34:03PM -0700, Brian wrote:
> I understood what you meant.  I have found that in (python/pygtk at
> least) that the filename is not highlighted, the cursor is at the first
> charachter in the name, and any typing done does an insert before
> without loosing anything of the filename I set when calling the file
> chooser (usually the file did not exist).   So by typing, foo.ext would
> become myfilefoo.ext and the "foo" charachters would have to be deleted
> to end up with myfile.ext .

Ah, ok. So this seems to work differently in pygtk.
In C (gtk+-2.4.10) the whole filename is selected by default.

> I am sorry if I don't know the proper c library function calls to tell
> you. But I have only been programming gtk in python so far.

Ok. Thanks anyway.

Cheers,
 Thomas