Gtk.FileChooserWidget

Gtk.FileChooserWidget — A file chooser widget

Object Hierarchy:

    GObject
    ╰── GInitiallyUnowned
        ╰── Gtk.Widget
            ╰── Gtk.Container
                ╰── Gtk.Box
                    ╰── Gtk.FileChooserWidget

See also:

Gtk.FileChooserDialog

Functions:

• new (action:Gtk.FileChooserAction) -> Gtk.Widget

Signals:

• “desktop-folder” (widget, user_data)
• “down-folder” (widget, user_data)
• “home-folder” (widget, user_data)
• “location-popup” (widget, path, user_data)
• “location-popup-on-paste” (widget, user_data)
• “location-toggle-popup” (widget, user_data)
• “places-shortcut” (widget, user_data)
• “quick-bookmark” (widget, bookmark_index, user_data)
• “recent-shortcut” (widget, user_data)
• “search-shortcut” (widget, user_data)
• “show-hidden” (widget, user_data)

Description:

Gtk.FileChooserWidget is a widget for choosing files.

It exposes the Gtk.FileChooser interface, and you should use the methods of this interface to interact with the widget.

Function Details:

new()

new (action:Gtk.FileChooserAction) -> Gtk.Widget

Creates a new Gtk.FileChooserWidget. This is a file chooser widget that canbe embedded in custom windows, and it is the same widget that is used byGtk.FileChooserDialog.

• Returns: a new Gtk.FileChooserWidget

• Since: 2.4

Example:

import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk

def file_selected(button):
    print("Selected file: %s" % filechooserwidget.get_filename())
    Gtk.main_quit()

window = Gtk.Window()
window.set_title("FileChooserWidget")
window.set_default_size(600, 400)
window.connect("destroy", Gtk.main_quit)

box = Gtk.Box(orientation=Gtk.Orientation.VERTICAL, spacing=5)
window.add(box)

filechooserwidget = Gtk.FileChooserWidget(action=Gtk.FileChooserAction.OPEN)
box.pack_start(filechooserwidget, True, True, 0)

buttonbox = Gtk.ButtonBox(orientation=Gtk.Orientation.HORIZONTAL)
buttonbox.set_layout(Gtk.ButtonBoxStyle.END)
buttonbox.set_spacing(2)
box.pack_start(buttonbox, False, False, 0)

button = Gtk.Button(label="_Open", use_underline=True)
button.connect("clicked", file_selected)
buttonbox.add(button)

window.show_all()

Gtk.main()