Re: File Chooser Dialog: display only files with chosen extensions: SOLVED

[vijayasarathy setsindia net]

Hey friends,

Solution:
You could
> either use gtk_file_filter_add_mime_type or
> gtk_file_filter_add_pattern(filefilter, "*.exe").

Thanks ...the last thing works. I tried mime type, that didnt work too ..


Vijay

gtk_Add_fil
On Sun, January 13, 2008 3:39 am, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
>

> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 17:04 +0530, vijayasarathy setsindia net wrote:
>
> > Hey friend,
> >
> >
> > Thanks for that suggestion ...I did try adding file filter and
> > associating the filter with the file dialog.
> >
> >
> > Here is the code I tried:
> >
> >
> > **********************************START CODE CHUNK
> > *************************
> >
> >
> > GtkFileFilter *filefilter;//For filtering only exe files into
> > GtkWidget *wdgt_filechooser;//pointer for creating filechooser dialog
> > box
> >
> > //Create and configure filter
> > filefilter = gtk_file_filter_new();
> >
> > gtk_file_filter_set_name(filefilter,(const gchar *)"exe filter"); //Add
> > mime type "exe" to created filter.
> > gtk_file_filter_add_pattern(filefilter,(const gchar
> > *)"application/octet-stream");
>
> gtk_file_filter_add_pattern is for shell-style glob matches. You could
> either use gtk_file_filter_add_mime_type or
> gtk_file_filter_add_pattern(filefilter, "*.exe").
>
> > //create file chooser dialog box
> > wdgt_filechooser = create_ui_filechooser();
> >
> > //Add filter to the dialog box
> > gtk_file_chooser_add_filter((GtkFileChooser
> > *)wdgt_filechooser,filefilter);
> > //Show file chooser dialog box
> > gtk_widget_show(wdgt_filechooser);
> >
> > *****************************END CODE CHUNK
> > ********************************
> >
> >
> > This just didnt work out ...Only sub-folders in respective folders are
> > being showed ...nothing else !!
> >
> >
> > Help pls...
>
> Armin
>
>
> > Vijay
> > On Sat, January 12, 2008 4:18 pm, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> >
> > >
> >
> > > vijayasarathy setsindia net wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible that we can let a GtkFileChooserDialog object [file
> > > > chooser dialog] to display only files of specific extensions, for
> > > > example, display only exe files in the navigated folder ?
> > >
> > > Certainly. You have to create GtkFileFilter's. See these links:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkFileChooser.html#gtk-f
> > > ile- chooser-add-filter
> > > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/gtk-gtkfilefilter.html#Gt
> > > kFil eFilter
> > >
> > > --
> > > The only time a dog gets complimented is when he doesn't do anything.
> > > -- C. Schulz
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
> > > ekalin gmail com http://move.to/hpkb


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