On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:42:27 +0100 (MET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > I want to learn Tkinter and try to build a small File search dialog. Tkinter > is nice, but here is a problem where I am stuck: > > I want to allow the dialog's user to pick a directory. The widget for this > is tkFileDialog.Directory. But when I start the Directory-Window, it is > possible move the focus back to my File Search dialog. Thus it is possible > but not wanted to create several "Pick directory" windows. I tried to make > the Directory instance modal by calling .grab_set() but this raises an > attribute error. Here is a minimal example: >
Hi Karsten, I guess the tkFileDialog.Directory class isn't intended to be used directly. Try tkFileDialog.askdirectory() instead. If there are problems with the grab state, try passing "parent=self.top" to askdirectory(). I hope this helps Michael _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
