Re: gEDA-user: [pcb GTK HID] Updated patch for filters in filechooser dialog

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 18:32 -0700, Steven Michalske wrote:
> Bert,
> 
> just a question about the shell style globs for the filters.
> 
> you are adding two of the posable capitalizations
> 
> +    gtk_file_filter_add_pattern (pcb_filter, "*.pcb");
> +    gtk_file_filter_add_pattern (pcb_filter, "*.PCB");
> 
> Will gtk's globs use the following syntax?
> 
> +    gtk_file_filter_add_pattern (pcb_filter, "*.[Pp][Cc][Bb]");
> 
> If it did, it would match
> 
> pcb
> Pcb
> pCb
> pcB
> ......
> PCB

I'm not sure this is a good thing.. I would prefer just ".pcb" and ".fp"
to be matched, unless anyone had a good reason to do otherwise.

> and only use one glob pattern
> 
> 
> also I thought we made mime types and the gtk chooser can use mime  
> types too.....
> gtk_file_filter_add_mime_type()

That would be good to add as well I suspect. (Or instead of the suffix
matches). It might be useful to test how much performance impact it has
to require inspecting the files for mime-type though.

Relevant mime-types which PCB registers are:

application/x-pcb-footprint
application/x-pcb-layout
application/x-pcb-netlist


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Peter Clifton

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