Osei Poku wrote:

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So, can you change the patch so it produces the fialog fully open?

According to this link, that behaviour is not yet possible. Sorry :)

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2005-August/msg00199.html

Hi, all,

Actually, if you look at the SaveAs dialog, you can see that the file browser is already expanded. As a workaround for the problem, we wrote this little bit of code at line 1193 in src/dialog/filedialog.cpp, which recursively descends into the private widget tree of the dialog to find the expander widgets:

void findExpanderWidgets(Gtk::Container *parent, std::vector<Gtk::Expander *> &result) { if (!parent) return; std::vector<Gtk::Widget *> children = parent->get_children(); for (unsigned int i=0; i<children.size() ; i++) { Gtk::Widget *child = children[i]; GtkWidget *wid = child->gobj(); if (GTK_IS_EXPANDER(wid)) result.push_back((Gtk::Expander *)child); else if (GTK_IS_CONTAINER(wid)) findExpanderWidgets((Gtk::Container *)child, result); }

}

Then this code in the constructor at line 1288 calls it. You notice that we're only looking for the first one, anyway. It then easily pops the silly thing open and everyone is happy. :-)

//Let's do more customization std::vector<Gtk::Expander *> expanders; findExpanderWidgets(cont, expanders); //g_message("Found %d expander widgets\n", expanders.size()); if (expanders.size() >=1 ) { //Always show the file list Gtk::Expander *expander = expanders[0]; expander->set_expanded(true); }

Obviously, the guys who wrote the new Gtk dialog want to change the way people use file dialogs. Little hacks like this can ease the transition for luddites like me. ^^

Hope this helps.

bob

On 06/03/29 at 05:29 -0600, Bob Jamison wrote:

Bob Jamison wrote:

In fact, a FileChooserDialog has in its API the ability to add an "extra widget", which could easily be the contents of the existing export dialog. It would likely result in smaller and simpler code.

Just an idea...

I just heard that my patch has been commited.

I havent forgotten about this. Just been busy with other stuff. I wrote some code but there were problems with the layout that I didnt have time to debug and so I had to put it off until later.

I will get back to this soon :)