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How to determine the file type selected in a FileSel widget? [SOLVED] [message #2864]

Fri, 28 April 2006 14:20

forlano
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Registered: March 2006
Location: Italy

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Hello,

my application now needs to open a database (a text file with .txt or .csv extension) and process it according to its internal format that are two for each extension.
So I've 4 formats but only two extentions. This means that the only extension do not give me the possibility to remove the ambiguity.
For my purpose would be enough if I could simply get from the FilSel widget what type file the user selected. In fact I set:

fs.Type( "Files FIDE archive (text)", "*.txt")
  .Type( "Files VEG (csv)", "*.csv;")
  .Type( "Files FSI Italy (csv)", "*.csv")
  .Type( "Files fixed lenght (text)", "*.txt")      
  .DefaultExt("txt");

Is there a way to return the string (or the index) of the .Type() the user select? I couldn't find an appropriate method while it is easy to get the extension:

String  ext = ToLower( GetFileExt( filename ) ); // GetFileExt is in Core/Path.h

Thank you,
Luigi

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