This seems a little harsh. I thought I was asking a reasonable question. My question was whether or not you could make the Win32::GUI BrowseForFolder widget select a directory without rooting to it - it seems that the answer is no, but I just wanted to check before I went off to look at other options, as this seemed the easiest.

Thank you very much for your initial response.

A tree by definition has a root. If what you actually mean is can I root the tree on C:\ but have it pre-expanded to Folder X the answer is no, not with BrowseFolder. If you want to do native Windows with a poorly documented API then you are going to get very familiar with MSDN. 20 seconds on google will turn up links like: BrowseForFolder If the native API call does not do it no wrapper method is going to help.

cheers

tachyon

Thank you!

That is just the information that I was after. Sorry about the to-ing and fro-ing.

I apologise for my incompetence on this issue: I have been programming (probably badly by modern standards, but as has been stated by better men than I: TMTOWTDI!) in perl for several years and this is my first foray into GUI.

Having read a little about Tk, I believe you are right, and that that is a much better way to do it. Thanks for all your help

Cheers

HabitForming