Re: GTKFileSelection

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sep 9, 2004, at 7:48 PM, Brian Thomason wrote:

>  I am attempting to change the default directory used by 
> gtk_file_selection_new().  I've been browsing through the code and 
> haven't seen an easy way to do this.  In KDE's file selection dialog 
> method they call another method which returns the default path to be 
> used.  If one isn't specified, and the users history contains no 
> entires, the current working directory is used. (just like here with 
> GTK)  Unfortunately, I can't find where this is taking place in 
> gtkfilesel.c or related files.

GtkFileSelection uses the current directory at the time of the widget 
creation.  In the private function cmpl_init_state() the filesel's 
internal completion state is initialized by calling 
get_current_dir_utf8().  The filesel's current directory will also be 
changed after creation if you call gtk_file_selection_set_filename() 
with a filename that includes a directory path component.  The docs for 
gtk_file_selection_set_filename() say:

 * Sets a default path for the file requestor. If @filename includes a
 * directory path, then the requestor will open with that path as its
 * current working directory.
 *
 * This has the consequence that in order to open the requestor with a
 * working directory and an empty filename, @filename must have a 
trailing
 * directory separator.


>  I'd also like to change the default behavior of GTKFileChooser as 
> well, which defaults to the Home directory. 

the default implementation (gtkfilechooserdefault.c) has an internal 
variable named current_folder.  i bet if you put a watch on that in gdb 
you can find where it gets set.

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