[Tutor] tkfiledialogs and hidden files

Jose Amoreira ljmamoreira at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 13:56:08 CET 2011


On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:38:19 PM Dave Angel wrote:
> On 11/07/2011 09:45 PM, Jose Amoreira wrote:
> > Hello!
> > Is there any way to configure tkFileDialogs so that they don't display
> > hidden files?
> > Thanks.
> > Ze Amoreira
> 
> I can't help you with tk, but maybe I can help you ask a better question.
> 
> "Hidden files" means a different thing on various operating systems.  In
> Linux, it means a name with a leading period. In Windows, it can mean a
> file with one or more of several attributes.  There's even some
> ambiguity in the latter.
> 
> Please specify (to everyone else, not to me) what environment you're
> targeting in as much detail as possible.

Yes, I'm sorry.
I meant hidden files in Linux.
It's just that my home directory contains a lot of those files and directories 
and I'd rather not need to scroll the dialog display to get to the files/dirs 
that I usually want to select.
Anyway, thank s, Dave.
Ze Amoreira
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