[texworks] SCRIPTING: TWapi getOpenFileName(filter string)

[Paul A Norman]

Thanks that was my next question   ";;"  very useful feature when its ready.

Paul

On 13 December 2010 04:51, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2010-12-12 07:01, Paul A Norman wrote:
>> Ok, working api usage and documentation for TW.app.getOpenFileName(),
>>
>> Say I am building a function to insert a graphic name.
>>
>> http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#TCAOwTxChU8/trunk/src/TWApp.cpp&q=getOpenFileName%20package:http://texworks%5C.googlecode%5C.com
>>
>> ... shows an overload function that can recieve a string that would be
>> prepended as a file filter to the Tw standard filter list
>>
>> Filters in
>> http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#TCAOwTxChU8/trunk/src/TWUtils.cpp
>>
>>  ... suggests that I can construct my filter to look like this:
>> "Image Files (*.jpg *.png *.pdf)"
>>
>> So then experimentally this works nicely ...
>>
>>      TW.information(null,"Choose Image",TW.app.getOpenFileName("Image
>> Files (*.jpg *.png *.pdf)"));
>>
>> Is my construction for the filter string correct and stable please?
>
> Yes. The filter string is passed to QFileDialog::getOpenFileName, so its
> format is documented by Qt (e.g.,
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qfiledialog.html#details)
>
> Note that I would not recommend using ";;" in your string (i.e., to add
> more than one filter to the dialog). While this should work in most
> cases at the moment, it is not handled properly and may change in the
> future.
>
> HTH
> Stefan
>