Windows 7: cannot select game engine on different drive

[mfn]

Reported by User:

On initial setup, it asks me to configure games by finding the engine directory. GtkRadiant 1.6 is installed on C:\ but my Q3 dev stuff is on D:. The interface won't let me browse to the D:\ drive of my computer, listing only the subdirectories on the C:\ drive. I can manually type in the location and it works, but a little annoying none-the-less.

[0bsidian]

To be clear, other drives do show up, just not in the drop down menu as you would expect. The file browser is a little unconventional and not intuitive. See the following screenshot:

http://robotrenegade.com/temp/radiant16/selectgamedirectory.png

As in the above, it looks as if the other drives are a subset of C:, which doesn't make sense.

[mfn]

I don't think it's supposed to be there, see http://my-serve.rs/tmp/radiant_select_game_directory_gtk_dialog.png .

Looking into the source, it's using gtk_file_selection_new() which is pretty much responsible for the whole dialog. It's deprecated and can (probably should) be replaced with gtk_file_chooser_dialog_new(). I did this already with the other in-editor file open/save dialogs. The GTK family of such i/o dialogs leave a lot to be desired.

IMHO on win32 it would ideally use the platforms native dialog.