[Tkinter-discuss] How to enable load button in python-tkinter widget

[Guilherme Polo]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Anil Roy <yorlina007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Guilherme,
>
> I understood what you have said but, there is some confusion in me, because
> i am a biginner..
>
> You are saying to have two widgets right, so my question is can we do this
> by having a single button in the displsy named as "Browse" and when we click
> that ,the file explorer opens ??

Yes, Yes

> And does this tkFileDialog.Open returns the filename which is beign
> selected, or else how to get the filename being selected including the full
> path.

It stores it at instance.filename

> Can you provide some sample code for this.
>

I'm not sure if it would help you if I just gave you the code, you
should be reading something to start learning Tkinter.
http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/index.htm
http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/index.html
http://www.manning.com/grayson/
http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/

> Thanks a lot
> Anil
>
>
> Guilherme Polo wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Anil Roy <yorlina007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to design a tkinter widget where i should have a browse option
>>> button
>>> as you see in all windows application to select a file from my machine.
>>
>> The button is a widget, a Tkinter.Button, and the file browser is
>> another widget, tkFileDialog.Open, so they are two different things
>> and they are both done, apparently you don't have to design them.
>>
>>> Also i need to select an integer from some dropdown box.
>>
>> You would need a combobox, which is not available in the Tkinter
>> module but there are alternatives. Tix and Tile provide it, so you
>> could install one of them, or you could upgrade to tk 8.5 (python
>> 2.6b1 includes it in the Windows build). If you are going to use tile
>> or tk 8.5 you will need a wrapper, which is not available in the
>> python stdlib but can be found at
>> http://gpolo.ath.cx:81/projects/ttk_to_tkinter/code
>>
>>> How can i implement this... I m donewith the backend python coding.. but
>>> i
>>> need help for the front end..
>>>
>>> please help me...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Anil Roy
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