From gnome-devel-list  Thu Jul 15 13:48:17 1999
From: Havoc Pennington <rhp () zirx ! pair ! com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:48:17 +0000
To: gnome-devel-list
Subject: Re: Problems with gtk file selection...
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On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, David wrote:
> When trying to get the filename selected in a gtk file selection dialog, it
> returns an extrange string, like
> XG@Xroject/golgotha/main.c
> 
> What should I do to get the absoulte path?
>

Looks like memory garbage; did you destroy the file selection before you
extracted the string?
 
> Also, how to use the gnome file selection dialog? I've not seen any example
> "OUT THERE".
> 

There isn't a Gnome file selection dialog, unfortunately. :-)

> And also one more question. Apart from gnome's documentations, is there any
> other good resource to get code examples?
> 

CVS - there are tons of apps in there. See www.gnome.org.

Havoc