Re: FileChooserDialog sort order

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 17:09 +0200, Ludwig H�e wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In the Gtkmm application I'm working on the user always has to switch
> the sort order of the file chooser dialog to account for the file naming
> scheme employed here. Therefore I searched for ways to alter the sort
> order of the FileChooserDialog so that it sorts the files displayed by
> date instead of by name. However, I could not find a function in the
> class reference that would provide that functionality.
> 
> A different approach was to add the FileChooserDialog as a member to my
> main window so that it doesn't get destroyed, hoping that upon reopening
> the state would be kept during a program session. This keeps the folder
> selected but not the sort order which resorts to sort-by-name.
> 
> I'm running out of ideas, so a little help in answering one of the
> questions would be very appreciated:
> 
> Is this functionality (change sort-order) available at all in Gtkmm?

Sorry, it doesn't see to be:
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1FileChooser.html

You might file an enhancement request for GTK+ in bugzilla.

> If not, is there maybe a hack to achieve the same under Linux/Gnome?
> 
> Is it "good practice" to keep a dialog as a member to preserve its state?

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