Re: file chooser dialog

[Wallace Owen <wallace owen L-3Com com>]

You need to normalize the paths, then you can string compare them.

Given that the current directory were /tmp/barb, normalizing the path
will transform ./../file and /tmp/barb/file into ./file.


  // Wally

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 23:36 +0200, Roland Koebler wrote:
> hi,
>
> > Does anybody also have an idea, how to realize the decision, if a path is
> > below another one (platform independent would be nice but not absolutely
> > necessary).
> maybe there already is such a function in a library - I don't know.
> but you can use glib. look here:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Miscellaneous-Utility-Functions
> ..html
>
> > Unfortunately the function must work with relative paths also (so tring
> > comparison is not possible).
> look i.e. at: g_path_is_absolute, g_get_current_dir, g_build_path
> with that, you can simply build an absolute path from a relative path.
>
> example:
> current = g_get_current_dir();
> if( g_path_is_absolute(path) ) absolute = g_strdup( path );
> else                           absolute = g_build_filename(current,path,NULL);
> g_free(current);current=0;
> ....
> g_free(absolute);absolute=0;
>
> regards,
> Roland
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