By all means, please improve the documentation!
--Tim
On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 07:09:33 AM Eric S wrote:
> 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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> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
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> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
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> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<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
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon
> >>> 'image-missing' for stock: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<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
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<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
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
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> >>>
> >>> (<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
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> >>>
> >>> (<unknown>:2678): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion
> >>> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
