Yeah I solved this, the problem was the programs current directory which I
have now fixed. Thanks anyway.
On 16 October 2011 14:52, Ardhan Madras <aj...@knac.com> wrote:
> > I have tried making the argument and
> > converting it to an absolute path by getting the output of
> g_get_current_dir
> > () which I understand to return the current working directory but it
> > only returns the name of my home directory, which is unusual
>
> Why did you manage to build the file path with g_get_current_dir(),
> the result of course is depend on current directory of your program
> process that likely to be wrong. g_get_current_dir() return your
> home directory path most likely because you invoke your program
> from there.
>
> Ardhan
>
>
> --- neilmu...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> From: Neil Munro <neilmu...@gmail.com>
> To: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org
> Subject: glib and relative file names
> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 19:54:13 +0100
>
> Hey guys
> I am trying to work out a system to pass files to the
> application I am working on, now it can accept absolute paths but it
> doesn't
> seem to like relative paths can someone have a look at my code and see why
> the G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS check fails? I have tried making the argument and
> converting it to an absolute path by getting the output of
> g_get_current_dir
> () which I understand to return the current working directory, but it only
> returns the name of my home directory, which is unusual. Can someone shed
> some light on this?
>
> The code I am using is below.
>
> if( argc == 1 ) // If no arguments were passed
> gtk_window_set_focus( GTK_WINDOW( window ), New( NULL, Notebook ) );
> else // Check to see if any files were specified on the cmd line
> {
> gint i;
> for( i = 1; i < argc; i++ )
> {
> g_print( "\n%s\n", argv[ i ] );
> if( g_file_test( argv[ i ], G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS ) )
> {
> g_print( "File exists!\n" );
> gtk_window_set_focus( GTK_WINDOW( window ), open_with( argv[ i ], Notebook
> )
> );
> }
> }
> if( gtk_notebook_get_n_pages( GTK_NOTEBOOK( Notebook ) ) == 0 )
> gtk_window_set_focus( GTK_WINDOW( window ), New( NULL, Notebook ) );
> }
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