Re: Need information about changed filter selection in the FileChooser control

[Claus Dietrich <claus.dietrich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruce

Am 01.11.25 um 19:26 schrieb Bruce Steers:
> It's the problem with compound controls.
> They will usually Inherit UserControl.class so all the UserControl 
> events are automatically listed by the wiki.
> I added some info about events not happening in the UserControl wiki 
> page https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.qt4/usercontrol
>
> Here's the problem,
> if you look at the FileChooser control source 
> https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/tree/master/comp/src/gb.form/.src/File/Chooser/
> you will see it is a class inheriting UserControl that adds the 
> FDirChooser object.
> The FDirChooser consists of a DirView, a FileView , a textbox, a 
> combobox and a panel of buttons.
> The internal controls mouse events are used in the internal operation 
> of the parent Usercontrol so are not detected and sent by the 
> FileChooser itself

Yes, I tried to reassemble FileChooser from source and was surprised 
about its complexity. The FilterCombo seemed to have a purely internal 
event handling.

> hope that makes sense
>
> My hack will be moot if Benoit adds a filter change event though, but 
> you gotta love a good workaround right? :)

Absolutely :-) 👍!

Best regards

Claus