"Ian Mallett" <geometrian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To everyone: pgu works to select the file. There are, however, a few
> glitches, like the first directory on the highest level is not listed. I
> was also hoping for something like a popup window. Any program with a
> 'open' function has EXACTLY what I want. How do you do that function?
I'm still unclear about what you want, and what it is that you're trying
to accomplish.
Go to Microsoft Word. Go to File->Open. The window that opens is what I want.
If you're creating a non-game tool, and would like to invoke a popup
dialog box as a window independant of your main window, I still think that
wxPython's file chooser dialog is a good way to prompt the user for a
file. As was mentioned earlier, wxPython uses native controls, so the file
dialog will look familiar, whether users are running on Macs or Windows. I
have no idea what happens with KDE/Gnome/etc on Linux. Did you try
wxPython? It sounded like you did. Did the file dialog not work? Or is
that not what you want?
I tried it, but it didn't work. I didn't spend too much time with it, though. I don't know if it's what I want, as I have not yet seen it working.
If you're creating a game, then, as people have pointed out, you probably
don't want either tkinter or wxPython, but you want something like pgu,
which you're already looking at.
Right. See, I am making a program that uses pygame. Would it work to perhaps make the file chooser a subprocess?
-Dave LeCompte
Ian