Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Tk alternative to askopenfilename and askdirectory? Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:18:01 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 9bagZWmP8rZ9eapbJE1Axg6kvc2D+ha35KxFweFfc6Wg== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.014 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'column': 0.07; 'directory)': 0.09; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:skip:a 10': 0.09; 'wed,': 0.15; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'selects': 0.16; 'subject:alternative': 0.16; 'subject:askdirectory': 0.16; "tk's": 0.16; 'url:home': 0.18; 'gui': 0.18; '2015': 0.20; 'meant': 0.22; 'select': 0.23; 'dec': 0.23; 'implemented': 0.24; 'thus': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.26; '+0000': 0.27; 'separate': 0.27; 'convenience': 0.29; 'dialog': 0.29; 'objects': 0.29; 'allows': 0.30; 'system,': 0.30; 'implement': 0.32; 'directory,': 0.33; 'environment,': 0.33; 'maintaining': 0.34; 'file': 0.34; 'list': 0.34; 'behind': 0.35; 'done': 0.35; 'mix': 0.35; 'skip:> 10': 0.35; 'level': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'there': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'say': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'beyond': 0.37; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'doing': 0.38; 'button': 0.38; 'anything': 0.38; 'files': 0.38; 'application': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'where': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'more': 0.63; 'within': 0.64; 'between': 0.65; 'drive,': 0.66; 'clicking': 0.75; 'click': 0.76; '(utc),': 0.84; 'moves': 0.84; 'windowing': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91; 'scenes': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-79-218-140.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:100508 On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:18:54 +0000 (UTC), Ulli Horlacher 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/