Hi, On Mon, 1 May 2017 11:12:43 -0600 Bob Greschke <b...@passcal.nmt.edu> wrote:
> We have a Python/Tkinter inventory program that I wrote that users > access using X-Windows (Xming, XQuartz, etc.). It can't directly access > files on the users computer, of course, but cutting and pasting text > into a Toplevel with a text widget in it does make that text available > to the program. You can hit a Save button, the program will read the > Text() and save it to the database, for example. > > Could the same thing be done with a .gif or a .pdf file? If there was a > Toplevel that was designed for dragging and dropping .gif/.png files > to, could it "interpret" the dragged stuff in such a way that it could > then take the info and turn it into let's say uuencode, display that in > the window, then when the user hits a Save button that uuencoded text > gets read, run through PhotoImage and saved in the database? > > Actually, it might be nice to be able to do the same thing with a .csv > file. Yearly we have to look for differences between a spreadsheet that > "they" keep and what is in the inventory database. It's a manual labor > thing. If the user could just drop the .csv into a window and run the > comparison function on the resulting text that would be nicer than copy > and paste. Right now the .csv has to be put in a specific place on the > server (like by me) and then the comparison function executed. Adding > pictures of items in the inventory is handled the same way. If I could > access files on the remote (to the server) machines that would solve a > bunch of things. > > Dragging and dropping a file from 'outside' of a Toplevel would > actually be like accessing the file on the users machine, wouldn't it? > That doesn't sound good. Could the user copy and paste the file into > the Toplevel? > > I haven't even looked into dragging and dropping yet. That might be > beyond my brain cell count as it is. for drag and drop you might try the tkdnd wrapper from http://tkinterdnd.sourceforge.net/ (it's pretty old Python2-code; from a quick glance I think that changing the import line from import Tkinter into something like try: import Tkinter except ImportError: import tkinter as Tkinter might be all that is needed to make it work with Python3 though) With the tkdnd test script I can drop a bunch of filenames from Xfe onto a Tk window here (Debian Jessie). However I am not sure if this helps you any, since of course these files would still have to be read... Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars. -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", stardate 3259.2 _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
