RE: tkFileDialogs
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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: tkFileDialogs
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* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
tkFileDialogs
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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list