Defining folder paths in an easy way?

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

Dear monks. Im writing some tk and I would need a easy way for the user to define filefolder paths. The folders will be shown i a listbox. (The progam will process the files in the folders). Do you have any suggestions how to solve this problem? I thought about a folder drag and drop mechanism but not sure if it is possible to do this in -tk. Do you have any other suggestions? Thank you for any help.

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Re: Defining folder paths in an easy way? by jrtayloriv (Pilgrim) on Feb 16, 2008 at 12:40 UTC
Are you just saying you need a file dialog? Tk::FileDialog handles this sort of thing nicely.	[reply]
Re^2: Defining folder paths in an easy way? by tamaguchi (Pilgrim) on Feb 16, 2008 at 12:51 UTC
Filedialog maybee is the obvious and right way to do this, but do you know if it is possible to implement drag and drop of folders in tk?	[reply]
Re^3: Defining folder paths in an easy way? by jrtayloriv (Pilgrim) on Feb 16, 2008 at 13:00 UTC
I've never used it myself, but a quick search turned up a module called TK::DragDrop, which would seem to take care of that too. Try searching google for "tk drag drop perl" and you will find many tutorials and such regarding this ... UPDATE: Here ya go UPDATE: And this node isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it is very similar -- you could easily modify it to do what you want.	[reply]