[newbie] tkFileDialog does not show title
jenswaelkens at gmail.com
jenswaelkens at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 02:47:15 EDT 2016
Op dinsdag 29 maart 2016 00:29:29 UTC+2 schreef Peter Pearson:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:10:28 -0700 (PDT), jenswaelkens at gmail.com wrote:
> > I'm using the tkFileDialog-module in Python 2.7, it works fine except
> > for one thing: when I add a title, the title isn't shown.
> >
> > e.g. I have this line of code:
> > inputfilename=tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(defaultextension=".dat",
> > filetypes=(("data file", "*.dat"),("All Files", "*.*") ),
> > title='Select input file')
> >
> > this works fine i.e. the file selector menu opens but I expected that
> > the text 'Select input file' would be displayed too. Can anyone here
> > explain me how I can achieve this?
>
> On my system (Linux, Python 2.7.3), "Select input file" appears as
> the title of the choose-a-file popup window -- that is, it appears on
> the window's title bar, along with the maximize, minimize, and close
> buttons. Is that not what you wanted?
>
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Thanks Peter and Wildman for trying this out on your systems. Now I know at least the code is correct but the fact that nothing is displayed on my desktop has probably to do with some setting of the LXDE-desktop I'm using. I will investigate this further.
kind regards,
jens
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