In a message of Sat, 22 Aug 2015 21:04:24 +0100, Pawel Mosakowski writes: >Hi, > >I've found this little gem in the Tk docs >https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/getOpenFile.htm#M13 >>From what I see "file patterns" in the file dialog are not "regex >patterns" and do not support special characters. Only things that work >are: >1) * - any extension >2) "" - files without extension >3) literal extension without wildcard chars >Unfortunately it looks like there is no simple way to filter out hidden >files. >Check out this answer >https://mail.python.org/pipermail//tutor/2011-November/086483.html > >Regards, >Pawel Mosakowski
Thank you. Looks like it will be necessary to construct a new widget. I'm surprised ... Laura _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss