Hi, when working with function packages in the GUI (uploading for moderation, for example), one needs to specify "gfn" or "zip". But why actually? Couldn't both variants be shown in one go? I mean, afterwards one needs to pick the wanted file anyway, and typically there wouldn't be a whole lot of those types in one directory.

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 9:43 AM Sven Schreiber <svetosch(a)gmx.net&gt; wrote: > > Am 18.05.2021 um 20:26 schrieb Sven Schreiber: >> Hi, >> >> when working with function packages in the GUI (uploading for >> moderation, for example), one needs to specify "gfn" or "zip". But why >> actually? Couldn't both variants be shown in one go? I mean, >> afterwards one needs to pick the wanted file anyway, and typically >> there wouldn't be a whole lot of those types in one directory. >> > Ping, any thoughts about this? Sounds good. Who wants to do it?

Am 26.05.2021 um 11:33 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > Am 26.05.2021 um 03:34 schrieb Cottrell, Allin: >> Sounds good. Who wants to do it? > After trying to search for relevant keywords in the source, my working > assumption is that the file gui/fnsave.c is relevant. If you can confirm > this hunch, I can try to apply the necessary change. (In a little > branch, just to be safe...) OK, so in the meantime I was directed to gui/fileselect.c.  But I'm facing a problem there: in the filesel_add_filter function there's a call to gtk_file_filter_add_pattern, and here's the associated minimal documentation: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkFileFilter.html#gtk-file-filte... The question is, how is it possible to specify one pattern which covers two file extensions (*.zip and *.gfn) ? The doc just says use a glob, but what exactly is supported there? Would curly braces be expected to work to denote multiple patterns, like this: {*.zip,*.gfn}

Am 28.05.2021 um 20:46 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Fri, 28 May 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> The question is, how is it possible to specify one pattern which covers >> two file extensions (*.zip and *.gfn) ? The doc just says use a glob, >> but what exactly is supported there? Would curly braces be expected to >> work to denote multiple patterns, like this: {*.zip,*.gfn} > > Not sure about that -- in fact I doubt it, a glob is not a regular > expression -- but what I had in mind is to add two patterns to the one > filter, as in > >     GtkFileFilter *filt = gtk_file_filter_new(); > >     gtk_file_filter_set_name(filt, _(desc)); >     gtk_file_filter_add_pattern(filt, pat1); >     gtk_file_filter_add_pattern(filt, pat2); >     gtk_file_chooser_add_filter(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(filesel), filt); > > where desc is the description, pat1 would be "*.gfn", and pat2 would > be "*.zip". Hm, I thought that would just create the two to-choose-from filters, but I see that perhaps the hierarchy of what the "filter" entity is has different semantics. Hopefully I can experiment with that a little.

But for questions and issues like these, is there a web location to which you would point people, where the nesting or internal structure of the gtk widgets is explained? (Because the developer reference I quoted before does not do that.)