Hi all,

I am having a problem with GtkFileChooser when the chooser action is set to GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_CREATE_FOLDER, i.e., I want to allow the user to specify any existing or as-yet-nonexistent directory. The documentation says that use of GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_CREATE_FOLDER:

"... Indicates a mode for creating a new folder. The file chooser will let the user name an existing or new folder."

This certainly implies that if the user specifies an existing directory the dialog will not complain that it cannot create the specified directory because it already exists. Unfortunately, this is exactly what is happening to me! I get a popup message that says:

        The folder could not be created
   Error creating /yadayadayada...: File exists

The chooser dialog remains visible while this message is displayed and after it is dismissed, waiting for me to select something else.

Curiously, this seems to happen only when I specify the current working directory (CWD) of the process. If I specify any other pre-existing directory this error does not occur. If I run this program from a different directory and specify my original CWD where it failed before, the error does not occur. It seems perfectly reasonable to me to make the CWD the default directory of choice for the user and I do not want to change this.

Can anyone explain this bizarre behavior? I am using gtk 3.22.24 (MacPorts release) under MacOS 10.12.6.

The relevant code follows, somewhat simplified from its original state to make it more intelligible here. Please advise if you see something stupid.

        GtkWidget *d;
        GtkFileChooser *fc;
        char cwdbuf[BIGBUF];
        int rspID;

if ((d= gtk_file_chooser_dialog_new("Dir Select", NULL, (GtkFileChooserAction) GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_CREATE_FOLDER, "Cancel", GTK_RESPONSE_CANCEL, "Continue", GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT, NULL)) == (GtkWidget *) 0)
                return -1;

        fc= GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(d);

        if (getcwd(cwdbuf, (size_t) MAXPATHLEN) == (char *) 0)
                return -1;
        gtk_file_chooser_set_current_name(fc, cwdbuf);

        rspID= gtk_dialog_run(GTK_DIALOG(d));

The error occurs within gtk_dialog_run() of course, as the dialog remains displayed and I can change the selection after I dismiss the error message.

I have also tried doing

        gtk_file_chooser_set_create_folders(fc, FALSE);

prior to calling gtk_dialog_run() but that makes no difference.

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

Roger Davis
Univ. of Hawaii
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