Re: RecentManager

[Kjell Ahlstedt <kjell ahlstedt bredband net>]

RecentManager::get_default() gets a RecentManager where all programs can 
save recently used files. Usually it's not empty. Word processors, text 
editors and all kinds of programs may have saved names of recently used 
files there. The information is saved in a file, on my PC in file 
~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel. I don't think there's any guarantee 
that your newly saved file name will be the first one in the vector that 
RecentManager::get_items() returns, but it should be somewhere in that 
vector.

I'm don't know why you don't find your file name in a FileChooserDialog. 
Do you use a filter that hides it? Have you looked through the whole 
list of files in the dialog, and not just the first few entries?

Kjell

2012-10-31 14:51, g4hx skrev:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to include a RecentManager in my program but so far I am
> utterly failing to do it. I have the following code to add a file
> obtained by a FileChooserDialog to the recent files list:
>
>    Glib::RefPtr<RecentManager> mgr = RecentManager::get_default();
>
>    if(!mgr->add_item(dialog.get_uri()))
>      g_warning("Could not add item to recent files");
>
> If I understand correctly, then a subsequent statement of the type
>
>    g_warning("%s", mgr->get_items()[0]->get_uri().raw().c_str());
>
> should return the URI that I passed to the RecentManager. Only this
> is not the case, instead the warning prints another file to the
> terminal. Also the file does not show up in any FileChooserDialog.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> g4hx