Re: Methods +readable/writableTypes

[Germán Arias]

On 2014-02-11 12:44:56 -0600 Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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
> 

The parameter fileTypes only contains the extension of the document that will 
be saved. On Ink is "RTF", in Gorm is "gorm". So, I'm trying to get all 
available types.

Germán