Re: Gtk::FileChooserButton

[Jaroslav Šmíd <jardasmid gmail com>]

I know this won't help much, but when writing new app, I wouldn't bother 
to use gtk2 anymore and I would use gtk3 instead.

Anyway, you could always just destroy the whole dialog and create it 
anew so that the file won't be selected.

On 04/29/2011 07:54 PM, John Emmas wrote:
> I've been experimenting with this for a few hours now.  AFAICT there's a very significant difference in the 
> way a Gtk::FileChooser dialog works in Windows, compared to its operation in Linux.  Here's what I found:-
>
> 1)  Launch a Gtk::FileChooser from a  Gtk::FileChooserButton.  Select a file and click "Open".  The chosen 
> file becomes the currently selected filename.  In other words, Gtk::FileChooser::get_filename() returns the path to the 
> chosen file.
>
> 2)  The above path name is persistent.  If I re-launch the same FileChooser dialog, the previously selected 
> file is preselected when the dialog re-opens.
>
> 3)  After re-opening the dialog, select an empty folder and press 'Cancel'.  In the Linux version this has the effect 
> of removing the previous selection.  In other words the original Gtk::FileChooserButton goes back to displaying 
> "(None)" and Gtk::FileChooser::get_filename() returns an empty string.  However, this doesn't seem to be the 
> same in gtk-win32.  After selecting an empty folder and pressing 'Cancel' the original Gtk::FileChooserButton still 
> displays the previously chosen filename and Gtk::FileChooser::get_filename() continues to return its path.
>
> I could delve into this a bit further during the next day or two but I'd be interested to know which is the 
> intended behaviour.
>
> In Windows I'm building with gtk version 2.20.0.  My Linux version is slightly older - around 2.18.  Is it 
> possible that the behaviour got changed somewhere between them?
>
> John
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