Cheater has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm attempting to use Gtk2 to add a GUI to a script. In order to do this, I need to add a widget that will allow the user to browse their computer for a file. Once they choose a file and hit the 'Submit' button, I need to have the path of the file stored in a variable. Due to limited resources availbe on Gtk2, I have had little success in accomplishing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Gtk2 File Selection
by phenom (Chaplain) on Jul 27, 2007 at 02:21 UTC
    This should work: 
            my $file;
        my $dialog = Gtk2::FileChooserDialog->new(
            'Select a File', undef,
            'open',
            'gtk-cancel' => 'cancel',
            'gtk-ok'     => 'ok',
        );

        if ( "ok" eq $dialog->run ) {
            $file = $dialog->get_filename;
            print "file = $file\n";
        }
        $dialog->destroy;

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    See the documentation page for more: FileChooserDialog.
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      That code worked perfect. I have one last question. How can I make it so the user can only select files of a certain format (i.e. only image files)?
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        you reject his choice, and re-present the dialog
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Re: Gtk2 File Selection
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 27, 2007 at 08:37 UTC
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Re: Gtk2 File Selection
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 27, 2007 at 08:32 UTC
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