Re: GTK+2 - GtkFileChooserButton shows (none) as selected folder and crashes

[zz excite it]

On Friday 18 October 2013 21:43:27 Alessandro Francesconi wrote:
> Some of my application’s users declare a strange problem with a particular widget: GtkFileChooserButton.
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> I needed to provide a way to select a single folder, so I used the widget this way:
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> GtkWidget* button_outfolder = gtk_file_chooser_button_new(_("Select output folder"), 
> GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SELECT_FOLDER);
> output_folder_string = gtk_file_chooser_get_filename(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(button_outfolder)); // store the 
> default value
> gtk_widget_set_size_request(button_outfolder, 180, 30);
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> The problem is that, when the widget is displayed for the first time, it shows the text “(none)” instead of 
> a default folder’s name. When the user clicks on it to select a valid path, the entire program crashes with 
> a segfault (I can’t provide further information right now).
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> This thing does not happen to everyone: for example, I’ve never seen this behaviour with my systems 
> (Windows 7/8, 64bit, GTK+ 2.22 and Linux 64bit with GTK+ 3), but some other users with apparently the same 
> environments are experiencing it.
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> I tried to workaround this issue by forcing the default folder at startup with:
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> gtk_file_chooser_set_current_folder(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(button_outfolder), "");
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> Nothing to do, the problem remains for “someone”.
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> Did anyone ever experience this bug? Is it reported somewhere? Am I doing something wrong in my code?
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> Thank you!
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> Ale

Hi,
this worked for me on xp and win7.


if (folder) {
                tmp = g_locale_to_utf8((folder), -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
                gtk_file_chooser_set_current_folder(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(dialog), tmp);
                g_free(tmp);
        }


Ciao,
zz