in reply to Tk::FileDialog: can't make ".filedialog" its own master

Hi Roy Johnson,

I hadn't heard of this bug before, but it's apparently been discussed.  Here, for example, is a closely-related bug written against ActiveState's bug database.

While searching google, there was one place where it was recommended that the programmer use Tk::getFileOpen instead.  Would that be a valid alternative, perhaps?

s''(q.S:$/9=(T1';s;(..)(..);$..=substr+crypt($1,$2),2,3;eg;print$..$/
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Re^2: Tk::FileDialog: can't make ".filedialog" its own master
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Oct 19, 2007 at 22:14 UTC
    Your Google-fu is apparently more powerful than mine. Thanks for the link. I didn't find a Tk::getFileOpen, but searching CPAN for getopenfile brought up chooseDirectory, and its file-selecting counterpart, getOpenFile, which appears to be undocumented on CPAN (but it's in chooseDirectory's SEE ALSO, and it works when I try it — and perldoc covers it). These are very fine widgets indeed.
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      Thanks for this one. It's been three years since your posts, but the bug hasn't been fixed. I just came up against it on a Win7 system with ActivePerl 5.10.0.
      GetOpenFile works fine for me, so I'll just use that. Here's the documentation on getOpenFile. It comes with Tk, no install needed.
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        Hmmm, I'm getting this problem on a debian install perl. not activeperl. i'm using it to select only directories and i tried Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::ChooseDirectory and came up against hell with it too until i realized that everything else in the app is tk. tia
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