Re: AW: overwrite files & file chooser

[Vladislav Grinchenko <3rdshift comcast net>]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:08, Andreas Hauber wrote:
> Hm,
> 
> I thought that it would be nice when the file chooser or selector dialog
> could do an event that could be catched if a filename that already exists is
> typed in a Gtk::FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SAVE dialog, because they are already
> working with the file system. So how do you check if a file already exists
> before saveing? Something like that:
> 	
> 	FILE * pFile = fopen(CFile.c_str(), "rb");
>     	if (pFile == 0) return false; 
> 

man 3 access

> Greets AH
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jan Hudec [mailto:bulb vagabond light src] Im Auftrag von Jan Hudec
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 13:44
> An: Murray Cumming
> Cc: Andreas Hauber; gtkmm-list
> Betreff: Re: overwrite files & filechooser
> 
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:30:42 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 11:21 +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:27:21 +0100, Andreas Hauber wrote:
> > > > is there a method to display a message like "do you really want to
> overwrite
> > > > the file: foo ?" in the filechooserdialog or does somebody know the
> best way
> > > > to do this.
> > > 
> > > This functionality does NOT belong to filechooser nor fileselector. When
> > > the fileselector dialog returns, simply check the name and ask the
> > > question using normal Dialog.
> > > 
> > > PS: For sake of user's sanity, please use FileSelector.
> > 
> > FileSelector is deprecated. If there's something that you don't like
> > about FileChooser then do some research and then file concise bugs.
> 
> Read the loooong list of bugs filed against FileChooser claiming it's
> completely unusable. It makes it virtualy impossible to type in path
> using keyboard (you can, but it pops a separate dialog, which does not
> do tab-completion).
> 
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> <bulb ucw cz>
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