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hungerfish · Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 4

Hello,
I'm writing an app. in which I want to display the contents of a folder (selected via filechooserdiag) in a listView. However I only want 'certain' filetypes to be displayed.
Now while I can do this using standard c-functions to analyise the filename and select only those files with the correct type(ending), I wonder if there is a way of doing this through GTK or GDK?

Also, on a side note, how can I include subfolders when 'opening' a directory with ' g_dir_open' & 'g_dir_read_name'?

ThanX

openldev · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

To display sub folders, you need to use g_file_test() to check whether the current file is a file or folder. Create a recursive parsing function.

As for file types, GVFS is coming in the next few releases of GLib, which checks mime types. For now, you can either check the file extension by searching the filename string, or using GnomeVFS.

hungerfish · Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 4

Thank you for your help. I'll look into using GnomeVFS, however I want to keep dependencies low, so I'll probably stick with checking strings.

forward83 · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 2

Hi, I'm looking to implement something similar but is a total noob.
Do you have some code/sample to share? Thanks.