Re: More Recent files questions

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 15:10 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> I'm working on Recent Files documentation. 

Thanks.

>  There's a RecentFilter
> member function in GTK+ that's not wrapped:
> gtk_recent_filter_filter().  The GTK+ documentation says that this
> function is only really used in the implementation of GtkRecentChooser
> and friends, so I assume that this is why the function was not
> wrapped.
> 
> However, I'm thinking of a situation where you get a list of
> recently-used items from RecentManager::get_items() and you want to
> filter these (i.e. without going through the default chooser widgets).
>  Wouldn't Gtk::RecentFilter::filter() be useful in this case?
> 
> The only problem is that I'm not sure if the underlying GTK+ machinery
> works well for this case (maybe it wasn't intended to) because
> gtk_recent_filter_filter() takes a GtkRecentFilterInfo object, and I'm
> not sure how you would go about converting a GtkRecentInfo object (the
> type returned from get_items()) to a GtkRecentFilterInfo object
> without a bunch of tedious copying between the two.
> 
> Is this a valid use-case?  should I ask the GTK+ developers?

Yes.

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