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From: Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: [newbie] tkFileDialog does not show title
Date: 28 Mar 2016 22:29:14 GMT
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:10:28 -0700 (PDT), jenswaelkens@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm using the tkFileDialog-module in Python 2.7, it works fine except
> for one thing: when I add a title, the title isn't shown.
>
> e.g. I have this line of code:
> inputfilename=tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(defaultextension=".dat", 
>        filetypes=(("data file", "*.dat"),("All Files", "*.*") ),
>        title='Select input file')
>
> this works fine i.e. the file selector menu opens but I expected that
> the text 'Select input file' would be displayed too. Can anyone here
> explain me how I can achieve this?

On my system (Linux, Python 2.7.3), "Select input file" appears as
the title of the choose-a-file popup window -- that is, it appears on
the window's title bar, along with the maximize, minimize, and close
buttons.  Is that not what you wanted?

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