in reply to Re: Tk::FileDialog: can't make ".filedialog" its own master
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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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Re^3: Tk::FileDialog: can't make ".filedialog" its own master
by elef (Friar) on Jan 31, 2011 at 20:49 UTC
    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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