I can't add much more, than to confirm what Ben says. The open file dialogs filter by mime types, so if the OS doesn't recognise a file as application/x-spss-* then you won't see it, except when "All Files" is selected.
Different operating systems have different ways of associating files
with their mime types. On GNU/Linux for example, it's done through the
mime-info database, which looks inside the file to check if it really is
a .sav file. On Windows, there is a registry setting.
I've heard that Mac has things called "UTI"s which are supposed to be
better than mime-types. Presumably there's a way to map from UTIs to
mimetypes, but I have exhausted my knowlege of the subject.
J'
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 08:55:27PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
[adding pspp-dev and John because I think John might know how to
install mime types]
Yes.
The likely problem here is that the dialog is selecting files,
other than .sps files, by their mime type. I think that you need
to install the mime type files for application/x-spss-sav and
application/x-spss-por in appropriate places. I'm not exactly
sure how to do that.
I know that the Windows maintainer had to do something similar
for the Windows build.
Jeremy Lavergne <jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org> writes:
> The open dialog he mentions is likely from gtk, right?
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Sorry that it took me a few days to get to this; I was traveling
over the
> weekend and have only now caught up.
>
> I loaded the new test image and it loads and runs fine. I tested it
> against some data and scripts I had run in SPSS and it provided
consistent
> results.
>
> The only issue I'd point out is on the Open File screen. On the file
> browse screen that is supposed to filter for "Data and Syntax Files"
it
> only seems to identify .sps files (i.e., syntax files). The only
way you
> can see data files is to use the "All Files" filter. I recognize
that
> this is probably not an issue related to the builds that you manage,
but I
> thought I'd pass it along anyway.
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