Re: Gtk2::FileChooserButton: strange behaviour when pasting location

[Mario Kemper <mario kemper googlemail com>]

You are right, thanks.


Am Sonntag, den 17.10.2010, 11:20 -0500 schrieb Jeremy Volkening:
> On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 15:22 +0200, Mario Kemper wrote:
> > There seems to be a bug in Gtk2::FileChooserButton when pasting
> > locations instead of selecting them manually.
> >
> > Here are the steps to reproduce:
> > 1) Create a new folder
> > mkdir -p /tmp/test/dir/
> > 2) Copy the string "/tmp/test/dir/" to clipboard and run my example
> > application (attached)
> > 3) Click on the widget and select "Other..."
> > 4) Paste the location into the address bar and hit enter
> > 5) Signal "current-folder-changed" is emitted but home directory is
> > still current folder (the widget shows "dir" instead)
> >
> > Is this a bug or am I doing something very wrong here?
>
> I don't think it's a bug. The documentation for 'get_current_folder'
> says:
>
> "Note that this is the folder that the file chooser is currently
> displaying (e.g. "/home/username/Documents"), which is not the same as
> the currently-selected folder if the chooser is in
> GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_SELECT_FOLDER mode"
>
> In other words, you're getting the directory that's last displayed when
> you close the dialog and not the one that's associated with your button.
> Since you're typing and not clicking, the displayed directory doesn't
> change.
>
> I think you want either:
>
> $saveDir_button->get_filename
> or
> $saveDir_button->get_uri
>
> depending on how you want it formatted. Hope this helps.
>
> Jeremy
>
> > Regards
> > Mario
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