RE: tkFileDialogs

2012-07-06 Thread brandon harris 
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
Heuu.

Don't you use os.environ['APPDATA'] if this is an environment variable?

Cheers
karim
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Re: tkFileDialogs

2012-07-06 Thread Rick Johnson 
On Jul 6, 12:22 am, brandon harris brandon.har...@reelfx.com wrote:
 [...]
 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%')

Don't you just love inconsistencies! I get weird results using your
string. Why not use expanduser?

py path = os.path.expanduser('~\\AppData')

Of course that will not solve your main problem though. Probably since
showing hidden files is a function of the OS setting, which explorer
follows blindly. I tried your code AFTER changing show
hidden_files_and_folders=True and both dialogs open into the correct
directory, as expected. You could modify the setting, then show the
dialog, then revert the setting back.

Ah. The joys of Win32 scripting... *chokes*
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