Re: Widget for displaying filesystem contents

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Ramashish Baranwal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a widget that can display filesystem contents in a
> tree view (similar to windows explorer). I think this is a somewhat
> common requirement in many applications, so was wondering whether
> Gtkmm has any built in. All I could find is Gtk::FileChooserWidget but
> that doesn't satisfy my requirements. The widget doesn't display
> directories in a tree which can be expanded and collapsed as required.
> Also it mixes directories and files which I don't want.
>
> If there's not any such built in widget, I would appreciate any
> suggestion on how to implement such a widget oneself. The main problem
> I see is navigating/listing the filesystem contents portably on all
> platforms.
>
> Ram
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    Best bet is to look at /directory_iterator/ from Boost::Filesystem
library ( http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm ) which,
like gtkmm, has very good documentation!

Caspar

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