It doesn't matter whether I pass the actual path in or the global variable name. The result is the same.
Brandon L. Harris ________________________________________ From: Karim [kliat...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 12:42 AM To: brandon harris Subject: Re: tkFileDialogs Le 06/07/2012 07:22, brandon harris a écrit : > I'm wanting to allow users to select hidden directories in windows and it > seems that using the tkFileDialog.askdirectory() won't allow for that. It's > using the tkFileDialog.Directory class which calls an internal command > 'tk_chooseDirectory' . However the file selector dialogs (askopenfilename, > asksaveasfilename, etc) has the common windows dialog which supports showing > hidden folders. It's using the tkFileDialog.Open class which is calling an > internal command of 'tk_getOpenFile'. > > Can anyone shed light on why these two dialogs are so very different and > possibly give me a solution to this hidden directory issue. I have found > that you can't really use the Open class because it's going to require a file > be selected, not a directory and the Directory class won't navigate to or > have an initialdir that is hidden (on windows the %APPDAT% folder is hidden > by default) > > Windows Example Code. > > import tkFileDialog > # Won't start in or allow navigation to APPDATA > test = tkFileDialog.askdirectory(initialdir='%APPDATA%') > # Will start in and navigate to APPDATA > test = tkFileDialog.askopenfile(initialdir='%APPDATA%') > > Thanks in advance for any help given! > > > Brandon L. Harris Heuuuuuu. Don't you use os.environ['APPDATA'] if this is an environment variable? Cheers karim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
