On Apr 1, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Jeff Shannon wrote:
At the OS level, these two actions are *completely* different. The webbrowser module launches an entirely separate program in its own independent process, where the "file browser" is opening a standard dialog inside of the current process and dependent upon the current process' message loop. (AFAIK, every GUI environment uses some sort of message/event loop...)
I don't know Macs, but on Windows, the closest "file browser" parallel to what the webbrowser module is doing would be os.system("explorer.exe"), which launches a separate program in an independent process. However, if you're trying to get the results of the file selection back into your own app, you need to do the file browsing within your own process (or explicitly use some form of inter-process communication). In order to use a GUI file-browsing dialog, you need to follow all the rules for a GUI program.
Thanks Jeff. This further clarifies it for me.
-MH
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