Gtk2 File Selection

[Cheater]

I'm attempting to use Gtk2 to add a GUI to a script. In order to do this, I need to add a widget that will allow the user to browse their computer for a file. Once they choose a file and hit the 'Submit' button, I need to have the path of the file stored in a variable. Due to limited resources availbe on Gtk2, I have had little success in accomplishing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[phenom]

This should work:

        my $file;
        my $dialog = Gtk2::FileChooserDialog->new(
            'Select a File', undef,
            'open',
            'gtk-cancel' => 'cancel',
            'gtk-ok'     => 'ok',
        );

        if ( "ok" eq $dialog->run ) {
            $file = $dialog->get_filename;
            print "file = $file\n";
        }
        $dialog->destroy;

See the documentation page for more: FileChooserDialog.

[Cheater]

That code worked perfect. I have one last question. How can I make it so the user can only select files of a certain format (i.e. only image files)?

[Anonymous Monk]

you reject his choice, and re-present the dialog

[Anonymous Monk]

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkFileChooser.html
http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/pod/Gtk2/FileChooser.html
http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/pod/Gtk2/FileFilter.html

[Anonymous Monk]

gtk2-perl tries to be perlish, so as to be comfortable and familiar for perl programmers; but it also tries to stick very close to the C API, so that any reference material, tutorials, example code, or programming experience you have with Gtk+ in any language can still be useful. So, the C API reference documentation at developer.gnome.org will be very useful even when developing in gtk2-perl; use it in conjuction with the guidelines for translating the C API to Perl as described in Gtk2::api.