Re: [gtk-list] Re: File selection

[George <jirka 5z com>]

Quoting Josh MacDonald (jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU):
> Instead, add a [TIP] button that comes up with a dialog saying, 
> 
> 	"Did you know that the GTK file selection can filter?
> 	 Just type in a shell wildcard expression and hit tab."

btw is there a way to set the default filter .... I know we were designing
an app where we were using a dialog to find a file ... the file was of 
one name but was a in directories with tons of other files which we
NEVER needed to open in that app ... the users are not so highly 
computer literate .. and having them wage though a 100 files to find the
right file just didn't fly ... having them type in the filter didn't fly
either ... this was one of the reasons we had to pull away from java ...
(and the second reson being that it was driving me nuts) ...

it's not really a filter, but filename compeletition (seems ala-zsh) ...	
I would like to maybe set a regexp filter as well ... (it doesn't have to
be there for most apps, but in some apps it just makes a lot of sense,
like our file picker for reading HPLC data ....)

George

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