Export as Bitmap, no files listed

[randoogle]

After clicking "Browse..." in the "Export Bitmap" dialog box, I do not see any files listed, only folders. Also, in the "Save as type:" list, under PNG, I see a list of random characters (often not readable by my system). I see a different list of random "file types" each time I click on the "Browse..." button. This is very consistent. I have never seen it work correctly since installing the newer pre-releases. I'm assuming this might be from moving away from a non-Gtk menu? I can't remember if the menu was Gtk before or not.

I am running the win32 version (Inkscape 0.47pre2 r22153, built Aug 24 2009) on WindowsXP SP3.

[theAdib (theadib)]

there should be only *.png files listed. If there are no png files in the directory. nothing is listed.
I will check what cause the scrambled filter. This is my bad. :-(
Adib.

[theAdib (theadib)]

 to much characters converted (the \0-s separate display string from content). Works on my side. Win32 only.
someone to test? Adib.

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

I can confirm the random filetypes that show up in the drop-down box that specifies the filetype in Windows XP, Inkscape 0.47pre2. However, I believe the only filetype that is supported here is .png, so I would ignore the dropdown box entirely. I suspect that it should have been disabled as it was in Inkscape 0.46.

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

woops, sorry about that, theAdib, our messages crossed each other somehow, please ignore my comment, I'll check out the patch on the next Windows build.

[randoogle (randyhunt1981)]

The folder I was looking at had several PNG's in it, yet nothing was listed.
That was the main part of my bug report. I guess I got carried away talking about that other gibberish in the drop-down (the only reason I looked at the drop down was because no files were listed and I figured that maybe there might be an "All Files" listing).

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

confirmed, my system is also not showing the .png files that exist.

[theAdib (theadib)]

g_utf8_to_utf16 gets confused by the \0 (zeroes) in the string. All examples replace a funny char to \0 after the assignment.

Attached patch (should, must, hope ;-) ) solves this issue by handmade putting the \0's.
Btw, thanks for testing. Adib.

[theAdib (theadib)]

Alvin, randoogle, do you confirm latest patch solves the problem?

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

sorry, I don't actually compile the code myself, I just work from the nightly Windows builds.

[ScislaC (scislac)]

Fix committed in r22274, thanks Adib!

With this patch, I am unable to test due to lack of access to a win32 box... can someone please report back once a build with it gets produced?

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Tested with r22275 on Windows XP, and I see no improvement.
The files are not listed and the strange cryptic file types are still (randomly) there.

[theAdib (theadib)]

ScislaC, thanks for committing. but you should have used the very latest patch #8 BUG431022_win32exportbitmap_byhand.patch labeled "hand made zeroes". Pls check. adib.

currently the patch from #3 is applied that randoogle checked and that not solves the issue.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

The latest patch works well. The bugs described in this report no longer appear.
Thanks Adib!

[ScislaC (scislac)]

Committed newer/better patch in r22278... thanks again Adib! Since JazzyNico said it's fixed, I'm closing.

[randoogle (randyhunt1981)]

I haven't had a chance to try this yet on the same machine that I was having the problem on, but on my XP box at home, it works perfectly now.

Thanks for all your hard work on this project! Especially Adib :]

[Lawrence (annon0m0s)]

Fix works in Inkscape 0.47pre4 , built Oct 12 2009 on Windows Vista. Added in this comment because I have a duplicate bug but on a different version of the operating system pointing to this one. Thanks Adib.