Multiple file open dialog

Eric Brunel eric.brunel at pragmadev.com
Thu Sep 26 08:45:37 EDT 2002


Nick B wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone advise on how to get a list of multiple file names from a GUI
> dialog.  I am working exclusively in Win32 but so far only have GUI
> experience with Tkinter.  What I would like is access to the standard
> Win32 shift-click and control-click conventions.
> 
> Tkinter's askopenfilename can only return a single filename (?).

There should be a "multiple" option on askopenfilename that allows to 
select multiple files. However, it seems that's it's quite recent (didn't 
succeed in making it work with Tk 8.3.2). But maybe it works for you? Just 
do:
askopenfilename(..., multiple=1, ...)

HTH
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