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Re: askopenfilename()

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Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 28.11.15 um 11:29 schrieb Ulli Horlacher:
> > One of my Windows test users reports, that the file dialog window of
> > askopenfilename() starts behind the console window and has no focus.
> > On Linux (XFCE) I do not have this problem.
> >
> > I start it with:
> >
> >    Tk().withdraw()
> >    file = askopenfilename(title='select a file',initialdir=HOME)
> >    set_window_focus() # give focus back to console window
> >
> > Can one force askopenfilename() to start in foreground with focus?
> 
> I can't test it right now, but I think it /should/ go into the 
> foreground by itself. 

This is what I think, too :-)
But my test user reports me, it is not so.


> I see two thingd:
> 
> 1) Tk().withdraw()
> 
> - this seems odd to me, because you don't keep a reference to the Tk 
> object around. 

I thought, I need it for Tk initialization.
But true, it is superfluous


> I think that you are curing a lot of symptoms with the focus setting to 
> the console etc.

This is done after the file selection window is closed. This works.


> Many problems would simply go away if you wrote the whole thing as a GUI
> program.

Too much hassle.
The predecessor was a Perl/Tk program and I have had to invest 90% of the 
programming work into the GUI handling. No fun at all.
Now, with fexit in Python, I skipped most of these problems.
The only GUI part is the file selection.


> If I understand correctly, what you want - a program to select files and
> folders to upload to your server 

This is only one of the tasks. The main menu looks:

[s]  send a file or directory
[g]  get a file
[c]  change login data (user, server, auth-ID)
[l]  login with webbrowser
[u]  update fexit
[h]  help
[q]  quit

(with more features to come in the future)

And the CLI:

framstag@juhu:~: ./fexit.py -h
usage: fexit [-C "comment"] [-a container] file(s) recipient[,...]
example: fexit flupp.avi framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
example: fexit -C "more data" -a labdata *.png x1@flupp.org,x2@flupp.org

usage: fexit FEX-download-URL
example: fexit http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/fop/jHn34yp7/flupp.avi


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  Re: non-blocking getkey? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-18 10:14 +0100
    Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 10:39 +0000
      Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 11:01 +0000
        Re: non-blocking getkey? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-18 12:17 +0100
        Re: non-blocking getkey? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-18 07:26 -0500
          Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 13:06 +0000
            Re: non-blocking getkey? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 00:24 +1100
              Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 13:57 +0000
            Re: non-blocking getkey? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-19 00:38 +1100
              Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 13:51 +0000
                Re: non-blocking getkey? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 01:01 +1100
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        Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-18 16:50 +0000
          Re: non-blocking getkey? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-18 12:55 -0500
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              Re: non-blocking getkey? eryksun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 02:43 -0600
                Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-23 17:01 +0000
                askopenfilename() (was: Re: non-blocking getkey?) Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-28 10:29 +0000
                Re: askopenfilename() Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-28 12:45 +0100
                Re: askopenfilename() Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-28 12:48 +0000
                Re: askopenfilename() Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-11-28 14:34 +0100
                Re: askopenfilename() Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-28 16:45 +0000
                Re: askopenfilename() Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-11-28 17:02 +0100
                Re: askopenfilename() Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-28 16:05 +0000
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          Re: non-blocking getkey? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-12-10 09:57 +0100
            Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-10 10:40 +0000
          Re: non-blocking getkey? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-10 15:52 +0000
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