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BK,
I am not speechless.
You just got carried away as did the rest of us excited by the updates to gtkdialog and the possibilities it presented.
Everyone knew when thunor started updating gtkdialog, that it could be classified as an alpha or beta version.
This normally means that testing is required.
It is also why Puppy builds normally do not include applications or utilities in their development phase.
It is also a reason why we have an older version of GTK+.
A later version from what I have heard, breaks things Puppy.

No one told you you had to use a version of gtkdialog that is under development or any of the applications that make use of the new features.

So do not jump all over everyone when something does not work right.
It is no different that posting a beta/test ISO and asking for bug feedback.
That is what is being done with gtkdialog and you also have to remember that the changes to it are not solely for Puppy's benefit as other linux OSes also use it.

I now have said my piece and will return you to the normal forum.

[BarryK]

Ok, I have implemented a solution. I certainly don't want to dampen thunor's enthusiasm. See blog post:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02455

It is easy enough for developers to call either 'gtkdialog', or test for 'gtkdialog4' and use that, so all the old scripts can carry on using 'gtkdialog3' and they will still work.

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I have a problem with thunor's fileselect_widget example.
In the example, why can't I pass a selected directory from the folder entry to be used by the file entry?

I tried using the variable "ent3", but that did not work even though it contains the selected directory.

In other words, I am setting in /root/examples and I use directory to choose /root.
/root is now in the variable ent3.
But clicking on the file selection icon brings up the original directory /root/examples and not the selected one.

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This is the script I am using for insight into what I am trying to do.
In the original script "$HOME" works and is a global variable.
But replacing it with "$ent3" does not.
I think this goes along with Barry's comment of the latest gtkdialog breaking Pfind as passing the directory variable to the file button does not happen.

Evidently, what I am trying to do in this example of passing a variable from Fileselect-folder to Fileselect-File is not possible with the current gtk code it relies on. I have found information in searching the web that basically states that. So this one although no solved in it's present state is of no use and the app I was thinking about will have to be written from scratch.
EDIT: I need someone to show me what use Fileselect:directory is when I cannot pass the selected directory to either an internal variable or an outside file!
In other words, I need help understanding how this would work.

I am about to drop the whole thing as it currently is just an exercise to see if it can be done.

[BarryK]

I have implemented the separation of PETs that require gtkdialog4 versus gtkdialog3:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02457

[8-bit]

Post now gone. When will I actually learn to read before shooting my mouth off.
I must be getting senile.

[01micko]

Barry

It could be dangerous reverting to gtkdialog3, unless the Moose on the Loose bugfix is applied, fixes stdin. This is the reason we could get rid of gtkdialog2 as I understand.

Slacko will not ship with gtkdialog3 but a link to it (beta2 will ship with rev-254)

By the way Thunor, nice job with the examples.

[thunor]

[frafa]

@8-bit
Example:

[jpeps]

[big_bass]

Hey thunor

I would like to thank you for stepping up to the plate and taking on the big task of updating, bug fixing, adding new features to gtkdialog for the linux community

and handling it all in a professional manner
using http://code.google.com/p/gtkdialog/

generally speaking when work is done in an organized documented way
users have the option to test new features and offer feedback with the aim to better the the code by taking part in the code development process

with an end goal of having a good program
to code small apps with

I always remind my self of a saying that I heard once
"if you stick your head above the crowd someone will throw a rock at you"
this isnt a problem you just have to learn to dodge it quickly
and go back to whatever you were doing



*I forget who said that its been a long time here was the quote*
funny that it was David Lee that said that

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frafa,
I tried running your example a few times using the latest gtkdialog and had an error with the <sensitive> lines kicking me out.
When I remedied that, I had to kill it as it took up lots of processing power without ever displaying anything.

But thank you for thinking of me.

It is actually just a test.
(Variables stay populated by the way and I checked just before my fileselect action command by sending the variable to a temporary file.)

One is supposed to be able to pass a directory to fileselect for use with the file command. But there is something that is not happening of the variable passing it's content string when put into the entry that is passed to fileselect. The interesting thing here is that if you use a global variable, $HOME, that works. Maybe that means the variable has to be declared outside of the script.
I was up all night last night trying various things and So I may have pissed a few off as my mental state was not good.

For that, I sincerely Apologize to those I upset!


I WILL figure this out for myself or die trying.

All of you remember to bring flowers so you have something to pee on.

[vovchik]

Dear thunor,

Just another word of thanks. I fully endorse Joe's (big_bass) views in the post above. You are doing wonders....so please slog away for the common good.

With thanks and kind regards,
vovchik

[frafa]

@8-bit
Hum strange...

-i have edited and removed sensitive in exemple
<sensitive>false</sensitive>
and replaced by
<action signal="show">disable:...</action>
and
<action signal="show">enable:...</action>

-and added a safety loop "while true ..." stop if loop >= 5 to prevent your bug
may be retested ...

François