Re: [gtkmm] Request for FileSelection::get_history_pulldown()

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 03:26, Mark Jones wrote:
> I need to hide the history pull down in my file selector dialog. 
> Currently it is easy to hide the file or dir list because these two
> functions exist:
> Gtk::FileSelection::get_dir_list()
> Gtk::FileSelection::get_file_list()
> 
> and they can be used like:
> 
> dialog.get_dir_list()->get_parent()->hide();
> 
> Though it may be pretty uncommon, I doubt that I will be the only one
> who ever wants to hide the history pulldown.
> 
> Of course, I can do this without any additional functions, probably by
> grabbing the underlying gtk object, and then using a gtk function on it,
> but ideally it would be nice if I could just do:
> dialog.get_history_pulldown()->get_parent()->hide();
> 
> Is it possible to add these two functions to Gtk::FileSelection to
> gtkmm-2.2?

If, and only if, that struct field is public then yes, if you provide a
patch.

> OptionMenu* get_history_pulldown();
> const OptionMenu* get_history_pulldown() const;

We can add API, yes.

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