Thanks,
This is exactly what I want. The documentation for the Tk package doesn't
list all the available methods/functions. There needs to be a more
discoverable method of finding them than asking in the user group.
Eric
On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 6:55:52 PM UTC-6, j verzani wrote:
>
> You can try `GetOpenFile`, `GetSaveFile`, or `ChooseDirectory` in the
> Tk.jl package. They all return a file name or "" if canceled. If you have
> other calls you want, these are just simple wrappers. For example, `
> GetOpenFile() = tcl("tk_getOpenFile")`.
>
> On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 6:56:21 PM UTC-5, Eric S wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
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>>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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>>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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>>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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>>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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>>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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>>
