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Thanks for the improvements. A couple of minor things:

count_to_plural_suffix would be better return $_[0] != 1 ? 's' : ''; In English - 0 apples, 1 apple, many apples.

The new display size is nice for general purpose, but for the application that catalysed the code I needed the exact number of bytes. Just shows, you can't write code to suit everyone. :)

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Re^3: Directory tree explorer with stats reporting
by parv (Parson) on Mar 12, 2006 at 02:45 UTC

    I personally like seeing "0 X" than to "0 Xs" where things are being counted like in this case. (Or, just do away w/ the count_to_plural_suffix). But as you said, "you can't...".

    I have been myself in situation where i wanted to see the exact number of bytes (or rather in 512-blocks), so no argument there. (I suppose "more appropriate units" caused your response?:)

    This is my first experience w/ Tk, otherwise i would have added some more key bindings (namely rebuilding the tree on request) and options to (interactively) modify the display. Slowly, but surely, one day ...

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      "0 apple" isn't conventional English usage. In Russian useage I understand that there are three plural cases - perhaps you could redo the user interface in Russian? :)

      Not sure I noticed "more appropriate units", not to the point of objecting anyway. More comment concerning units was a "more than one way to use it" type comment. I'll likely change my version to insert comas however to make the numbers more readable. Perhaps we need to add a configuration menu?

      I use Tk in a fairly light weight way fairly often for simple GUI apps such as this. I guess I didn't spend much more than an hour on the original code before I posted it - post early and often they say.

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