Re: Gtk-WARNING from file chooser

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 22:22 +0000, Robert Pearce wrote:
> Hello most excellent experts!
> 
> I have an application from which I can save several types of files.
> When the user wants to save something I use a Gtk::FileChooserDialog to
> allow her to pick a file name. Since this is a save operation I
> construct this with the Gtk::FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SAVE parameter.
> 
> Now, suppose the user wants to create a brand new shiny file that
> doesn't overwrite her previous results. Seems like exactly what this
> option is supposed to allow. So why do I get:
> 
> (vpctrl:22603): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to retrieve the file info for `file:///home/rob/OVS/newLogger5.csv': Error stating file '/home/rob/OVS/newLogger5.csv': No such file or directory
> 
> It's a new file. It was chosen in a "save as..." dialog. Why would Gtk
> want to try "stating" it? And even if it does, why produce a warning
> for what must surely be the most common expected condition?

This might just be a problem in the version of GTK+ that you have. I
haven't seen it, so maybe it is already fixed. It should not be hard for
you to create a small C test case.

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