Re: Question about FileChooserDialog

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:08 +0100, roger cambsoc ch wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:21:08 +0100 Murray Cumming wrote:
> >> What's the recommended way to present a dialog to
> >> the user which allows the user to select several
> >> file names? FileChooserDialog seems to allow
> >> selection of only one filename.
> >
> >Many interesting methods are in the FileChooser base class.
> >
> >For instance, set_select_multiple():
> >http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1FileChooser.html#30a13c0df47fab50c93ad8f38db0c88c
> 
> Thanks, I see. I assume that I'd retrieve the selected filenames by
> calling Gtk::FileChooser::get_filenames() which returns a
> Glib::SListHandle<Glib::ustring>.

Just use a vector, list, or whatever you prefer:
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/ch03s05.html

> However, it's not entirely clear how to "clean up" afterwards. The docs say
> "Returns:
>     A G::SList containing the filenames of all selected files and subfolders in the current folder. Free the returned list with Glib::slist_free(), and the filenames with Glib::free()."

Eek. I must fix that.

> (I assume G::SList is just a typo for Glib::SListHandle)
> Glib::slist_free and Glib::free are not listed in the Glib namespace reference at:
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/namespaceGlib.html
> so how are they used? Is there an example somewhere?
> 
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