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Re: Tk alternative to askopenfilename and askdirectory?

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Subject Re: Tk alternative to askopenfilename and askdirectory?
Date Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:18:01 -0500
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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.


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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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