Re: Methods +readable/writableTypes

[Fred Kiefer]

On 11.02.2014 06:42, Germán Arias wrote:
> On 2014-02-10 02:11:34 -0600 Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote: 
> [...]
>> 
>> What you describe here seems about the correct thing to do. I
>> really would be interested in understanding what goes wrong here.
>> As I understand your mails this only happens with the extended
>> WinUX open panel, not with the standard one from GNUstep gui, is
>> this correct?
>> 
>> Fred
> 
> The problem is only with Open/Save panels in WinUXTheme. The GNUstep
> panels works in a different way, and don't use
> +readable/writableTypes. Attached is a patch for WinNSOpenPanel.m in
> WinUXTheme. This contains the changes I'm testing currently. There
> are two changes. First in function filter_string_from_types() I put
> one entry for each extension (I will improve this later). Second
> change is at method -runModalForDirectory:file:.... in WinNSSavePanel
> implementation. Here I get all the extensions for all writable types,
> preventing add duplications since -fileExtensionsFromType: return all
> extension (NSUnixExtensions and NSDOSExtensions). With these changes
> Ink works perfectly. But Gorm (Save panel) not.
> 
> I don't have a Windows machine. But I will try tomorrow with GDB or
> adding some NSLog. However, if I remember correctly, NSLog don't
> works in a theme (almost on Windows).

What I don't understand about this change is why you cannot just use the
filetypes that get handed into the method instead of using
writableTypes? I understand that you need to filter duplicates, but why
use a different list of names?

Fred