Hello Monks,

I appologize for the potentially confusing title of this post, but I could not think of a better heading. I've been dubbed the task of creating a GUI interface to a "calibration procedure" for our inhouse-made system. In particular, our system may be calibration as a whole or in parts

  System
  |
  |--Instrument1
  |  |
  |  |--Test1
  |  |--Test2
  |     |
  |     |--SubTest1
  |  
  |--Instrument2
etc

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In other words, this structure fits well into the Hierarchial List widget structure. I was hoping to use Tk::DirTree as the widget because all of the basic methods are already defined. But since DirTree lists actual subdirectories, I was thinking of creating a "System" directory somewhere on the system with "Intrument" and "Test" subdirectories. Then, all I would have to do is to change the root of the DirTree to be my "System" directory and I would have what I want.

Can DirTree handle this? I tried chDir() but it didn't do anything. Should I just bite the bullet and use Tk::Tree instead and define everything myself? Thank you in advance.

In reply to Tk::DirTree list header by gri6507

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