Hello, i am trying to use the FBox widget in perl's Tk module. the platform is cygwin running on window's XP. i'm new to Tk, but not to perl. i'm trying the get the -multiple option to work. 'multiple' is supposed to allow multiple files to be selected by FBox. i doesn't work for me. i also tried calling getOpenFile() directly with -multiple and that didn't work either (i believe FBox is a front end to getOpenFile()).

FBox wants option=>value pairs, and the docs i saw specify that -multiple doesn't need a value, so that's confusing, but i tried specifing -multiple a few different ways and none worked. the program executed, but i was not allowed to select multiple files.

i can provide more details if anyone is interested, but for now the basic question is: does this feature actually work? has anyone ever succussfully used it on any platform? ever successfully used it under cygwin on XP. i've scoured the net and couldn't find anything saying it shouldn't work.

thanks in advance. i'm really hoping it's pilot error.

In reply to FBox, getOpenFile, -multiple by mikep

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