I did try the Tk package instead. The message dialog look a lot better, but there is nothing in the documentation which suggests how to get at Tk's askopenfile or other dialogs. Any help would be appreciated.
Eric On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 5:22:19 PM UTC-6, Eric S wrote: > > I'm enjoying Julia, but one thing I'm missing is standard file open and > file save dialogs. I've found the Gtk package and tried that. It does > indeed generate a file dialog, but it is really ugly and nonstandard (on OS > X) and also generates the following error like messages in the terminal > (below). Perhaps there is something wrong with my installation. > > Is there something like how R works where you can just type "> > file.choose()" and a nice file picker dialog comes up. > > -Eric > > Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is > discouraged. > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'image-missing' > for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed > > > (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion > 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed >
