Re: Tk getOpenFile, can't get -initialdir to work

Works just fine for me, but the path name appears to require backslashes. And remember that backslashes are special, and thus require escaping, in double-quoted strings.

perl -MTk -e "MainWindow->new->getOpenFile( -initialdir => qq(c:\\prog
+ram files) )"
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Re^2: Tk getOpenFile, can't get -initialdir to work by mifflin (Curate) on Apr 04, 2008 at 17:46 UTC
I was taking my input from the chooseDirectory widget. chooseDirectory always uses forward slashes on xp. Passing its response through File::Spec->canonpath seems to do the trick. thanks.	[reply]