thunarx_property_page_provider_get_pages ()

GList *
thunarx_property_page_provider_get_pages
                               (ThunarxPropertyPageProvider *provider,
                                GList *files);

Returns the list of ThunarxPropertyPages that provider has to offer for files .

Extensions that implement this interface, must first check whether they support all the ThunarxFileInfos in the list of files . Most extensions will probably only support ThunarxPropertyPages for exactly one file of a certain type. For example an MP3-Tag editor property page will most probably support only a single audio file, and so the method would be implemented like this

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GList*
tag_provider_get_pages (ThunarxPropertyPageProvider *property_page_provider,
                        GList                       *files)
{
  if (g_list_length (files) != 1)
    return NULL;
  else if (!thunarx_file_info_has_mime_type (files->data, "audio/mp3"))
    return NULL;
  else
    return g_list_append (NULL, tag_page_new (files->data));
}

where tag_page_new() allocates a new TagPage instance for a ThunarxFileInfo object passed to it. See the description of the ThunarxPropertyPage class for additional information about the TagPage example class.

As a special note, this method automatically takes a reference on the provider for every ThunarxPropertyPage object returned from the real implementation of this method in provider . This is to make sure that the extension stays in memory for atleast the time that the pages are used. If the extension wants to stay in memory for a longer time, it'll need to take care of this itself (e.g. by taking an additional reference on the provider itself, that's released at a later time).

The caller is responsible to free the returned list of pages using something like this when no longer needed:

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g_list_foreach (list, (GFunc) g_object_ref_sink, NULL);
g_list_free_full (list, g_object_unref);

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ThunarxPropertyPageProvider

typedef struct _ThunarxPropertyPageProvider ThunarxPropertyPageProvider;

struct ThunarxPropertyPageProviderIface

struct ThunarxPropertyPageProviderIface {
  GList *(*get_pages) (ThunarxPropertyPageProvider *provider,
                       GList                       *files);
};

Interface with virtual methods implemented by extensions that provide additional pages for the file properties dialog.