Hi,

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:35:32 +1200
Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Austin Redding wrote:
> > Is there any fix to allow for the contents of a directory to be 
> > displayed (like 'askopenfilename'), but maintain the functionality of 
> > 'askdirectory'?
> 
> This seems to be platform-dependent. On MacOSX I get a
> dialog that shows the filenames greyed out.
> 
> I'm guessing you're using Windows, where the system
> supplied directory choosing dialog is completely
> different from the one for choosing filenames and
> doesn't show files. If that's the case, there's
> probably nothing you can do about it, because
> tkinter isn't responsible for the difference.

it might be X11 as well, here you still get those Win95-style dialogs
provided by Tk (and since Austin said he checked the source code I
thought he referred to tkfbox.tcl, but of course I might be wrong there).

Best regards

Michael


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