What comes to mind, from your description of wanting to select multiple files simultaneously is the "listbox". You can choose it's -selectmode to "multiple", and load in your files.

Here is a fancy version I gleamed from the usenet, which uses drag'n'drop. Select A and D, then drag one to the yellow area. I think it's close to what you want. Just substitute your filenames for A..Z. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Tk;
use Tk::DragDrop;
use Tk::DropSite;
use strict;

my $var;
my $curindex;

my $mw=tkinit;

my $listframe = $mw->Scrolled(
 'Listbox',
 -selectmode=>'multiple',
 -scrollbars=>'oe')->pack;
my $listbox = $listframe->Subwidget('scrolled');
$mw->Label(-text=>'Yellow Entry is the DropSite')->pack;
my $entry = $mw->Entry(-bg=>'yellow')->pack;

$listframe->insert('end',('A'..'Z'));

my $token = $listbox->DragDrop(
        -event     => '<B1-Motion>',
        -sitetypes => [qw/Local/],
 -startcommand=>\&draghandler,
);

$entry->DropSite(
    -droptypes   => [qw/Local/],
    -dropcommand => [\&fillEntry,$entry,$listbox],
);

$listbox->bind('<ButtonPress-1>',sub {
 my $e=$listbox->XEvent;
        $curindex=$listbox->nearest($e->y); });

MainLoop;

sub draghandler
{
  #Force selection of the index under the mouse 
  $listbox->selectionSet($curindex,$curindex);
}

sub fillEntry
{
  my ($e,$l)=@_;
  $var='';
  $e->delete(0,'end');
  foreach ($l->curselection){
   $var=$var.$l->get($_);
  }
  $e->insert('end',$var);
  $l->selectionClear(0,'end');
}
__END__

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In reply to Re: The right Tk file selecter by zentara
in thread The right Tk file selecter by etcshadow

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