Graphics.UI.Gtk.Selectors.FileChooserButton

A button to launch a file selection dialog

• Module available since Gtk+ version 2.6

Detail

The FileChooserButton is a widget that lets the user select a file. It implements the FileChooser interface. Visually, it is a file name with a button to bring up a FileChooserDialog. The user can then use that dialog to change the file associated with that button. This widget does not support setting the "select-multiple" property to True.

The FileChooserButton supports the FileChooserActions FileChooserActionOpen and FileChooserActionSelectFolder.

Class Hierarchy

| GObject
| +----Object
| +----Widget
| +----Container
| +----Box
| +----HBox
| +----FileChooserButton

Types

data FileChooserButton

Instances

Eq FileChooserButton

Ord FileChooserButton

GObjectClass FileChooserButton

FileChooserButtonClass FileChooserButton

HBoxClass FileChooserButton

BoxClass FileChooserButton

ContainerClass FileChooserButton

WidgetClass FileChooserButton

ObjectClass FileChooserButton

class HBoxClass o => FileChooserButtonClass o

Instances

FileChooserButtonClass FileChooserButton

castToFileChooserButton :: GObjectClass obj => obj -> FileChooserButton

gTypeFileChooserButton :: GType

toFileChooserButton :: FileChooserButtonClass o => o -> FileChooserButton

Constructors

fileChooserButtonNew

Arguments

:: GlibString string

=> string

title - the title of the browse dialog.

-> FileChooserAction

action - the open mode for the widget.

-> IO FileChooserButton

Creates a new file-selecting button widget.

fileChooserButtonNewWithBackend

Arguments

:: GlibString string

=> string

title - the title of the browse dialog.

-> FileChooserAction

action - the open mode for the widget.

-> string

backend - the name of the file system backend to use.

-> IO FileChooserButton

Creates a new file-selecting button widget using backend.

Removed in Gtk3.

fileChooserButtonNewWithDialog

Arguments

:: FileChooserDialogClass dialog

=> dialog

dialog - the FileChooserDialog widget to use.

-> IO FileChooserButton

Creates a FileChooserButton widget which uses dialog as it's file-picking window.

Methods

fileChooserButtonGetTitle

Arguments

:: (FileChooserButtonClass self, GlibString string)

=> self

-> IO string

returns a pointer to the browse dialog's title.

Retrieves the title of the browse dialog used by the button.

fileChooserButtonSetTitle

Arguments

:: (FileChooserButtonClass self, GlibString string)

=> self

-> string

title - the new browse dialog title.

-> IO ()

Modifies the title of the browse dialog used by the button.

fileChooserButtonGetWidthChars

Arguments

:: FileChooserButtonClass self

=> self

-> IO Int

returns an integer width (in characters) that the button will use to size itself.

Retrieves the width in characters of the button widget's entry and/or label.

fileChooserButtonSetWidthChars

Arguments

:: FileChooserButtonClass self

=> self

-> Int

nChars - the new width, in characters.

-> IO ()

Sets the width (in characters) that the button will use to nChars.

Attributes

fileChooserButtonDialog :: (FileChooserButtonClass self, FileChooserDialogClass fileChooserDialog) => WriteAttr self fileChooserDialog

Instance of the FileChooserDialog associated with the button.

fileChooserButtonTitle :: (FileChooserButtonClass self, GlibString string) => Attr self string

Title to put on the FileChooserDialog associated with the button.

Default value: "Select A File"

fileChooserButtonWidthChars :: FileChooserButtonClass self => Attr self Int