Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Can not enter '/' in File Selections?

[Daniel Nilsson <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:54:13PM -0500, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:51:33 +0100, Mario Klebsch <mario@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > '/' is (at least on UNIX systems) an illegal character for a filename.
> > It is sthe systems path separator.
> 
> the GTK+ file selection box used to Do The Right Thing if you started
> typing a full path: it would descend into directories when you hit
> slash, and also allowed tab completion. I think it also handled
> spaces, too.

It still does, sometimes the field to type in is not visable though
(depends how you configured the file dialog box) but if you just start
typing a path a box will pop up to show you the completion. You can
try this with gedit for example. 

> (On the other hand, gschem used to use a custom file selection dialog
> box that didn't inherit this capability. I'd check to see if it's
> fixed, but my gEDA environment is currently broken.)

I tried a CVS build from today, doesn't seem to work in the current
gschem file dialog.

-- 
Daniel Nilsson