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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Tk alternative to askopenfilename and askdirectory? |
| Date | 2015-12-16 09:18 -0500 |
| Organization | IISS Elusive Unicorn |
| Message-ID | <mailman.9.1450275483.30845.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
| References | <n4robu$9bs$1@news2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> |
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:18:54 +0000 (UTC), Ulli Horlacher
<framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> declaimed the following:
>Is there an alternative to Tk's askopenfilename() and askdirectory()?
>
>I want to select a files and directories within one widget, but
>askopenfilename() let me only select files and askdirectory() let me only
>select directories.
I've only seen one place that allows such -- and that is a full
windowing desktop environment, for use with cut/copy/paste operations...
And might be implemented behind the scenes by doing individual selects and
maintaining a list of the file system objects thus included. I've never
seen an application file/directory requester that allowed for a mix (anyone
remember the W3.x requester? Separate boxes for drive, directory, and file
within directory)
askopenfilename()/askdirectory() are simple convenience functions meant
for use where one is not going to implement a full GUI application using
lower level widgets. Anything more complex should be done with full dialog
design -- say a two column "available -> selected" system, where single
clicking on name in the available column selects it and either some [->]
button or a double click moves it to the selected column... But how you
differentiate between a double click to select a directory vs a double
click to move into the directory is beyond me.
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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Tk alternative to askopenfilename and askdirectory? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-16 13:18 +0000
Re: Tk alternative to askopenfilename and askdirectory? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-16 09:18 -0500
Re: Tk alternative to askopenfilename and askdirectory? Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 17:24 +0100
Re: Tk alternative to askopenfilename and askdirectory? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-16 17:08 +0000
Re: Tk alternative to askopenfilename and askdirectory? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 16:28 -0800
Re: Tk alternative to askopenfilename and askdirectory? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-17 14:14 +0000
Re: Tk alternative to askopenfilename and askdirectory? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-12-18 09:32 +0100
Re: Tk alternative to askopenfilename and askdirectory? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-18 09:27 +0000
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