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List:       gtk
Subject:    Re: Creating an app with optional GTK support
From:       Michael Torrie <torriem () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-05-15 5:31:06
Message-ID: 4BEE319A.8000506 () gmail ! com
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Chris Moller wrote:
> Might be simpler to write a stand-alone file chooser app in GTK+ and, if 
> needed, talk fork()/exec() it and talk to it through pipes or sockets.  
> (I have a GTK+ wrapper for a closed-source implementation of APL that 
> does this.  It works fine.)

The utility "zenity" already implements this:

zenity --file-selection

returns the file the user chose on standard out.  Of course it's not the
most flexible thing.   You can't pick a directory, for example.


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