[Gambas-user] DirChooser does not see symlink'd directories

[Randall Morgan]

I reported this maybe two weeks ago....


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently (maybe it was yesterday?) rolled an overdue Gambas update and I
> just noticed that the IDE won't let me browse to my projects directory
> anymore which I like to access through a symlink on my desktop.
>
> Seems like the Dir-/FileChooser are the root cause. The attached project
> will create a symlink /tmp/tmp-link which points to /tmp and point a
> FileChooser to /tmp. On my system the symlink is shown as a file and is not
> "enter-able" like a directory would be. Screenshot attached.
>
> Before, symlinks that point to directories showed up in the directory part
> of the FileChooser and were indistinguishable from real directories, i.e. I
> could click on them to enter the linked directory.
>
> Is this behaviour controlled by Gambas? I honestly don't know when I had my
> last Gambas update. Might be that a system update lies in between and
> libraries changed...
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
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