Re: Advanced gtk_file_selection widget

[Michael Vanecek <mike mjv com>]

Can I assume you're the maintainer of the original file selection
widget? Perhaps the people authoring the advanced_gtkfilesel and
yourself could get together rather than have a "let the best dialog
win". The work they've done so far is certainly impressive and still
very much similar to the original since it's basically the original
widget extended and enhanced. They've gone a long way in keeping the API
the same so no applications would be broken. I'm using their latest
version and have suffered no confusion whatsoever and from the looks of
it, altering it to look for certain file extensions automatically
depending on the app (like Abiword looking for just the files it can
handle or Gimp looking for just the images it can edit) looks to be a
simple task...

Mike

Lars Clausen wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2000, Michael Vanecek wrote:
> 
> > http://students.cs.byu.edu/~torriem/gtk/ and specifically
> > http://students.cs.byu.edu/~torriem/gtk/files/advanced_gtkfilesel-0.2-1.i386.rpm
> > (you need to log off and log back on after installing for it to work - it
> > just provides a PATH to it rather than the original widget which remains
> > intact, just unused) is a pretty cool file selection widget I hope ends
> > up in the base Gtk distro. I especially like being able to choose the
> > file mask - many of the directories I have are full of files of different
> > types and trying to pick out a particular type in the mess can be a pain
> > - with the new widget all I do is type the extension with a wildcard and
> > hit enter and all the files with that extension show up - ie *.jpg -
> 
> There's a thing about that -- I prefer that the program can set the
> wildcards (and that the program has a bunch of standard wildcards to draw
> on).  For instance, a wildcard to catch all jpg's would actually have to be
> *.[Jj][Pp][Ee]?[Gg], and I don't want to type that in every time.  We're
> working on adding such a filter to our version.  We've tried to stick very
> close to the old dialog to avoid confusion.  May the best dialog win:)
> 
> -Lars
> 
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