On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Yaa101 <yaa...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > -- > (o_ > //\ Regards, Groeten, > V_/_ Bas Burger. > > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:01:32 -0400 > "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpie...@mecheye.net> wrote: > >> ( First of all, Florian, please try to reply on-list :) ) > > Florian probably replied sender instead of reply all, so I corrected > it... > >> >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Yaa101 <yaa...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> > >> > So what you say is that all the widgets from GKT+ itself are >> > offlimit for us gjs users? >> >> Not all GTK+ widgets are off-limits. Just new top-level windows. And >> that's not for gjs users, that's only when running gnome-shell >> extensions, as they run in-process. >> >> > Shame, now I have to finish my selfmade filechooser, I started on >> > that after I tried the Gtk.fileChooser for the first time. >> >> You shouldn't have to. Why do you want to launch a Gtk.FileChooser >> from a gnome-shell extension? > > Because I have a settings dialog with my extension and in there a user > has to fill a directory setting, so my thinking was, why not let a > user choose a directory instead of having that user fill in a > potentially wrong path. > > I am 3/4 there, the dialog works well but misses the places listbox yet. > That is why the questions of a scrolling table in the other mail.
Again, preferences should be done with the new preferences mechanism. >> >> > I thought it was my coding that made the lockup, so I tried to >> > create a js filechooser, today I tried to revisit the attempt on >> > Gtk.fileChooser as I made a lot of progress last 2 weeks on gjs. >> > >> > Can you explain more about the following? >> > >> >> Note that there is >> >> support for extension preferences, which run in a separate process. >> >> Please see my blog post at: >> http://blog.mecheye.net/2012/02/more-extension-api-breaks/ >> >> Basically, you create a file called 'prefs.js', which inside of it has >> a function named 'buildPrefsWidget', which returns some form of >> GtkWidget. Some extensions already have preferences -- go to your >> Installed Extensions on the website. Do any extensions have a green >> preferences icon next to them? > > No none, only one not working extension (called Media player indicator) > has a blue button (with a tools icon) in front of it, but it does not > do anything. Are you using Debian? > I go read your post... So much to learn still... > >> >> > I am asking all these (maybe obvious for you) questions because I >> > have no prior background with GKT+, so besides learning gnome-shell >> > I have to learn also the core GTK+ stuff. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > (o_ >> > //\ Regards, Groeten, >> > V_/_ Bas Burger. >> > >> > >> > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:50:42 +0200 >> > Florian Müllner <fmuell...@gnome.org> wrote: >> > >> >> On Jul 16, 2012 6:39 PM, "Yaa101" <yaa...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> >> > I am trying to call a filechooser, run it, then get the filename >> >> > from it. >> >> >> >> You can only open override-redirect windows from the window manager >> >> itself, which means you cannot use most of GTK+. Note that there is >> >> support for extension preferences, which run in a separate process. >> >> >> >> Florian >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > gnome-shell-list mailing list >> > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org >> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >> >> >> > -- Jasper _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
