Re: Gtk2::FileFilter by mime type

[Emmanuel Rodriguez <emmanuel rodriguez gmail com>]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Zettai Muri <zettaimuri ymail com> wrote:

Hi All,

I am trying to use the following filters:

my $sound_filter = Gtk2::FileFilter->new;
$sound_filter->add_mime_type("audio/*");

my $image_filter = Gtk2::FileFilter->new;
$image_filter->add_mime_type("image/*");

Because I read here: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-gtkfilefilter.html#gtk-file-filter-add-mime-type that 'GtkFileFilter allows wildcards for the
subtype of a mime type, so you can e.g. filter for image/*.'

Is this also possible with the Perl bindings?

I've checked the C implementation of GtkFileFilter and mime types rules are processed with g_content_type_is_a[1] which has different implementations for Unix/Linux and Windows.

In Linux g_content_type_is_a behaves as you expect so 'text/png' is considered a 'text/*'. I haven't tried with a GtkFileFilter yet.

Are you running your program in Linux/Unix or in Windows?

[1]Â http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/stable/gio-GContentType.html
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Emmanuel Rodriguez