diff libgui/src/files-dock-widget.cc @ 16555:04fb96f4bea1

allow double-click in file browser to load data files * files-dock-widget.cc (files_dock_widget::display_directory): If file looks like Octave data file, load it instead of opening with editor. * ls-mat-ascii.h, ls-mat-ascii.cc (get_lines_and_columns): New option to supress error messages. New option to check for numeric values. (looks_like_mat_ascii_file): New function. * load-save.h load-save.cc (is_octave_data_file): New function. (get_file_format): Don't return LS_MAT_ASCII unless the file really looks like it is a numeric data file.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:57:16 -0400
parents 016073c0cb94
children 5fc1ce2947bd
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--- a/libgui/src/files-dock-widget.cc
+++ b/libgui/src/files-dock-widget.cc
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
 #include <QMessageBox>
 #include <QToolButton>
 
+#include "load-save.h"
+
 files_dock_widget::files_dock_widget (QWidget *p)
   : octave_dock_widget (p)
 {
@@ -280,8 +282,15 @@
         }
       else
         {
-          if (QFile::exists (fileInfo.absoluteFilePath ()))
-            emit open_file (fileInfo.absoluteFilePath ());
+          QString abs_fname = fileInfo.absoluteFilePath ();
+
+          if (QFile::exists (abs_fname))
+            {
+              if (is_octave_data_file (abs_fname.toStdString ()))
+                emit load_file_signal (abs_fname);
+              else
+                emit open_file (fileInfo.absoluteFilePath ());
+            }
         }
     }
 }