Here's an example of a listbox with directories only, and when you click on an item, it will show information in the text widget.

• "...it will take a path as an input parameter <on the command line>, then the frame where it displays files will only display directories and sub directories..."
• "...when a directory or subdirectory selected (by clicking on the desired object), it will display <file stat> ... information..."

#!perl -w

use strict;
use File::Find;
use Tk;
use Tk::Frame;
use Tk::Text;
use Tk::Scrollbar;
use Tk::Adjuster;

# Main Window
my $mw = new MainWindow;
$mw->geometry('400x300');

# Main Frame
my $lf = $mw->Frame; # Left Frame;
my $aj = $mw->Adjuster(-widget => $lf, -side => 'left');
my $rf = $mw->Frame; # Right Frame;

# Args
my $path = $ARGV[0];  # path passed in on the cmd line

# create list of directories
my %dirs;
find(sub {$dirs{$File::Find::dir}++;}, $path);

my($ListBox) = $lf->Scrolled('Listbox',
                 -height => '0',
                 -width => '0',
                 -scrollbars => 'e',
                 );

my($OutputText) = $rf->Scrolled('Text',
                -height => '1',
                -width => '1',
                -scrollbars => 'osoe',
                );

# Load dir names into the listbox
$ListBox->insert('end', keys %dirs);

# Left mouse button calls display sub
$ListBox->bind('<ButtonRelease-1>',
           sub { OnShowFileAttr(); } );

# Pack everything
$lf->pack(qw/-side left -fill y/);
$aj->pack(qw/-side left -fill y/);
$rf->pack(qw/-side right -fill both -expand 1/);

$ListBox   ->pack(qw/-side left -fill both -expand 1/);
$OutputText->pack(qw/-side bottom -fill both -expand 1/);

# Start the main event loop
MainLoop;

exit 0;

sub OnShowFileAttr 
{
    my ($index) = $ListBox->curselection();
    my $filestats = join ":", lstat($ListBox->get($index));
    $OutputText->insert('end', $filestats."\n");
}
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The OnShowFileAttr method is where you will want to add your file/dir stat information retrieval. The $ListBox->get($index) will contain the item selected.

This is just a rudimentary script, but it should be less confusing, and hopefully meets your requirements.

--
.dave.

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