[Glade-users] File Selection Directory

[Manu C S]

Oops! I leaped before I looked! :-)

Found a solution (chdir() before creating the widget) 
for my problem.

Thanks for your patience.

Regards,
Manu

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Manu C S wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I need to create a file selection widget which allows
>a user to select some system files.
>
>My problem is that the file selection widget generates
>the file list corresponding to the current working directory
>whereas I need it to list out files residing in another 
>directory. Is there a way?
>
>I tried (foolishly?) to use 
>    system("cd system_directory")
>before creating my widget, but it didn't work.