[Gtk-sharp-list] Drag and drop path

[Christian Rudh]

But...

The change from filesrc to gnomevfssrc seems to have messed up the total
time of a song so I don't get anything when trying to query for it.

Well, you can't have it all I guess ;) Trying to solve it.

/Christian

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 22:13 +0100, Christian Rudh wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The code from muine worked good. But not with international and special
> characters. I solved it by using this C gnome-vfs function instead:
> 
> 	[DllImport ("libgnomevfs-2.dll")]
> 	private static extern IntPtr gnome_vfs_format_uri_for_display (string
> str);
> 
> 	public static string FormatUriForDisplay (string uri)
> 	{
> 		IntPtr p = gnome_vfs_format_uri_for_display (uri);
> 
> 		if (p == IntPtr.Zero)
> 			return null;
> 		else
> 		return GLib.Marshaller.PtrToStringGFree (p);
> 	}
> 
> This works fine with importing the files and showing them in the
> application, but gstreamer doesn't accept the filenames :(
> 
> But I solved that by sending the URI instead of the filename. GStreamer
> accepts them if you add the song to the pipeline with:
> 
> 	filesrc = ElementFactory.Make ("gnomevfssrc", "disk_source");
> 	filesrc.SetProperty ("location", songURI);
> 
> So gnomevfssrc instead of filesrc. Now all files I have tried to add so
> far works beutifully! :)
> 
> Hope it is to some help if you haven't solved it yet (saw that is was
> still an issue in bluefunk cvs).
> 
> /Christian
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 22:01 +0000, Mike Rhodes wrote:
> > I use this code:
> > 
> > 	[DllImport ("libgnomevfs-2.dll")]
> > 	private static extern IntPtr gnome_vfs_get_local_path_from_uri (string str);
> > 
> > 	public static string LocalPathFromUri (string uri)
> > 	{
> > 		IntPtr p = gnome_vfs_get_local_path_from_uri (uri);
> > 
> > 		if (p == IntPtr.Zero)
> > 			return null;
> > 		else
> > 			return GLib.Marshaller.PtrToStringGFree (p);
> > 	}
> > 
> > (All credit goes to the Muine code where I found it =) ) I believe
> > gnome-vfs isn't part of gtk-sharp as of yet, so I'm not sure of
> > another way to do it.
> > 
> > Mike.
> > 
> > p.s. btw, if you are thinking of writing a C# music player, I'm also
> > writing one; perhaps we could team up -- or at least solve some of the
> > issues that come up -- drop me a line off-list if you are interested!
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:08:26 +0100, Christian Rudh
> > <lists-christian@rudh.se> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > When drop a file on my application i get the URL in the following
> > > format:
> > > 
> > > file:///home/user/song%20X.mp3
> > > 
> > > To be able to pass it on to Gst# (for example) I have to remove the
> > > file:// part and replace %20 with spaces (that goes for other special
> > > characters to). Is there any simple way to decode the string to a normal
> > > Unix path? Like the System.Web.HttpUtility.HTMLDecode that MS .NET has?
> > 
> > 
-- 
Christian Rudh <lists-christian@rudh.se>