Re: Gtk2::FileFilter by mime type

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 02:28 -0800, Zettai Muri 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?

yes, and it works fine.

> At the moment, when my file chooser opens and I navigate to a directory where I have some jpgs I don't see 
> any files.
>
> If I change my filter to:
> $image_filter->add_pattern("*.jpg");
>
> I can see the files.

are you using windows?

windows doesn't have the concept of MIME types.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.