On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 17:09 +0200, Ludwig Hähne wrote: > Hello, > > In the Gtkmm application I'm working on the user always has to switch > the sort order of the file chooser dialog to account for the file naming > scheme employed here. Therefore I searched for ways to alter the sort > order of the FileChooserDialog so that it sorts the files displayed by > date instead of by name. However, I could not find a function in the > class reference that would provide that functionality. > > A different approach was to add the FileChooserDialog as a member to my > main window so that it doesn't get destroyed, hoping that upon reopening > the state would be kept during a program session. This keeps the folder > selected but not the sort order which resorts to sort-by-name. > > I'm running out of ideas, so a little help in answering one of the > questions would be very appreciated: > > Is this functionality (change sort-order) available at all in Gtkmm?
Sorry, it doesn't see to be: http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1FileChooser.html You might file an enhancement request for GTK+ in bugzilla. > If not, is there maybe a hack to achieve the same under Linux/Gnome? > > Is it "good practice" to keep a dialog as a member to preserve its state? -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
