Wow, yeah that looks very cool. Might want to pick a different logo for the screenshot though. ;-)

Bryce

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Bob Jamison wrote:

I added the SVG preview that people were requesting. I went ahead and wrapped the Gtk sp_svg_view widget in a Gtk::VBox for the time being. Hopefully we can make some all-Gtkmm widgets soon.

Anyway, here is what it looks like:

http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/filedialog3.png

Just IMHO, I think the thing doesn't look half bad. Still requires tweaking, of course. :-)

Bob

Bob Jamison wrote:

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Here is a screenshot of a first attempt at adding a text entry of the file name to the file open dialog.

http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/filedialog2.png

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bulia byak wrote:

This looks really good, but my concern is that there's a huge delay before it comes up, about 5 sec on my linux system which is clearly not acceptable. (Tested yesterday, i.e. without the preview but with the filename field added.) Can we do something about it?

Now that it is encapsulated in a Gtkmm widget, it can be reused, so the startup time should only be necessary once. This should be a minor change in file.cpp.

As for the tweaks, please make it modal and coming up centered over its parent editing window, as was the old one. Also remembering the size of the dialog would be nice.

I will look at these tomorrow.

Bob

bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> writes:

Another nice thing would be to add tooltips, especially to the bookmark buttons (if we can't hide them). I hope the tooltips exist and only need to be activated.

While we are at requesting... would it be possible to filter not only on "Autodetect" and all the single *.ai, *.dia, *.eps, ... *.svg, *.svgz... extensions, but filter for all extensions supported by Inkscape in one go? (I don't understand the meaning or use of "Autodetect" anyway.)

Cheers, Colin

Bob Jamison <rjamison@...357...> writes:

Colin Marquardt wrote:

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While we are at requesting... would it be possible to filter not only on "Autodetect" and all the single *.ai, *.dia, *.eps, ... *.svg, *.svgz... extensions, but filter for all extensions supported by Inkscape in one go? (I don't understand the meaning or use of "Autodetect" anyway.)

That's pretty much what it means( I think). Allow any file to be selected, and let the Extension mechanism try to take the proper action upon it.

Well, to give an extreme example... say I have a directory with 500 files with obscure extensions in it, and a "y.ai and a "z.svg". I'd want a filter that shows me only these two last files. "Autodetect" just shows me everything - and it doesn't help me a lot to get a message that inkscape failed to open one of the obscure files.

I'd want something that queries the Extension mechanism about what files it thinks it can handle and only shows these - before I actually try to open a file to see what it thinks.

Cheers, Colin

Bob Jamison wrote:

I see now. Ok, let me look at it, and see if the FileFilters support that.

Ok, give it a try. The first time it appeared, it did not filter immediately. I don't know if this is the intended behaviour. If necessary, select "Home" when it first appears.

This appears to be very easy to change, if anyone has any opinions how it should be best.

Bob

Bob Jamison <rjamison@...357...> writes:

Bob Jamison wrote:

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I see now. Ok, let me look at it, and see if the FileFilters support that.

Ok, give it a try. The first time it appeared, it did not filter immediately. I don't know if this is the intended behaviour. If necessary, select "Home" when it first appears.

Cool, that works, thanks. It also filtered immediately for me.

This appears to be very easy to change, if anyone has any opinions how it should be best.

I wonder if we should still have a "Show all" filter, equivalent to "*". There might be control freaks in the user base :)

Also, it showed me a "aaa.txt" file but failed to load it. Not sure what was supposed to happen - hide it, or import it somehow?

Thanks again, Colin

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Bob Jamison wrote:

Colin Marquardt wrote:

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Also, it showed me a "aaa.txt" file but failed to load it. Not sure what was supposed to happen - hide it, or import it somehow?

I don't know. '.txt' is definitely listed as one of the Extensions from Inkscape::Extension::DB, but I have no idea what it does. Its purpose might have been forgotten. :-)

If the extensions guys are around, I would suggest a simple text-to-svg conversion.

txt2svg should provide a basic text-to-svg conversion, and should be invoked when loading .txt files. This is an extremely simple minded converter script, mostly intended as a proof of concept. It probably doesn't support things like unicode. Patches to it are quite welcome.

Bryce