Re[2]: argv revisited

[Lucas Levrel <llevrel yahoo fr>]

Le 2 mai 2016, Andrew Robinson a écrit :

> I could find functions that worked for the command line, but I couldn't find
> any that worked for the filechooser, and when I go online and do a search,
> there are no examples for what I want to do. The GNOME forum answered my
> UNICODE question for the command line issue, but didn't answer the part about
> filechooser, and then they had the nerve to close out my bug report, which I
> thought was very rude.
>
> Also, I am kind of leery about having long filenames in Windows, and although
> I didn't see a problem with it, I have seen lots of Linux programs that would
> not work if certain file name paths contained any spaces. I am just not
> getting any good feelings with GTK, which is sad, because it is the only
> toolkit I know of that has a working add_from_file function.

I don't think I tried filenames with spaces, but I did test filenames with 
accented letters in both Linux and Windows, and it worked (using GTK2). 
E.g. for reading a file contents into one big string I have this:
-:-:-:-
  GtkWidget *dialog;
  dialog = gtk_file_chooser_dialog_new
    ("Title", GTK_WINDOW(gtkwin),
     GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_OPEN, GTK_STOCK_CANCEL, GTK_RESPONSE_CANCEL,
     GTK_STOCK_OPEN, GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT, NULL);
  /* gtk_file_chooser_set_current_name
         (GTK_FILE_CHOOSER (dialog), "foo.bar"); */
  if(gtk_dialog_run(GTK_DIALOG(dialog)) == GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT){
    char *filename;
    filename = gtk_file_chooser_get_filename(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(dialog));
    GFile *infile=g_file_new_for_path(filename);
    GFileInputStream *FIstream=g_file_read(infile, NULL, NULL);
    assert(FIstream);
    GDataInputStream *DIstream=
      g_data_input_stream_new(G_INPUT_STREAM(FIstream));
    assert(DIstream);
    char *string=
      g_data_input_stream_read_until(DIstream,"",NULL,NULL,NULL);
    assert(string);
    /* ... */
    g_free(string);
    g_object_unref(DIstream);
    g_object_unref(FIstream);
    g_object_unref(infile);
    g_free(filename);
  }
  gtk_widget_destroy(dialog);
-:-:-:-

(Not sure I understand your need, though.)

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Lucas Levrel