Re: GtkFileChooserDialog question

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 18 September 2014 15:39, Igor Korot <ikorot01 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:35 AM, LRN <lrn1986 gmail com> wrote:
> > On 17.09.2014 13:49, Igor Korot wrote:
> > > David,
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:58 AM, David Nečas wrote:
> > > > Please reply to the list.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:47:26AM -0700, Igor Korot wrote:
> > > > > > Yes, you need to right-click in the file list.  Unfortunately, the
> > > > > > discoverability of Gtk+ file dialog features is poor.
> > > > >
> > > > > And there is no such option on the dialog itself?
> > > >
> > > > You need to right-click in the file list *in the dialog itself*.
> > >
> > > I did call "gtk_file_chooser_set_show_hidden( true)", but until I
> > > right-clicked on the file list I wasn't able to see hidden files.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to start  with hidden files visibility turned on?
> >
> > There's a "show-hidden" property on GtkFileChooserInterface. I can't tell off
> > the top of my head which object implements that interface (probably the dialog
> > itself), but if you use g_object_set () to set it before opening the dialog, it
> > might have the desired effect.
>
> But that bring me to my first question: "What is the purpose of the
> function?" I thought it will set this property.

the function is just a wrapper around g_object_set(), and it does call
show-hidden.

GtkFileChooserWidget will load the stored settings when getting
mapped, so if you call gtk_file_chooset_set_show_hidden() before the
widget is visible, the widget will just use the currently stored
settings.

you can try calling gtk_widget_show() first, and then
gtk_file_chooser_set_show_hidden() to override the default; you can
also connect to the "map" signal, and call
gtk_file_chooser_set_show_hidden().

it would be good to document this behaviour; care to open a bug
against GTK+ on Bugzilla?

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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