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getOpenFile(3)        User Contributed Perl Documentation       getOpenFile(3)




NAME

       Tk::getOpenFile, Tk::getSaveFile - pop up a dialog box for the user to
       select a file to open or save.


SYNOPSIS

           $widget->getOpenFile(?-option=>value, ...>?)

           $widget->getSaveFile(?-option=>value, ...>?)


DESCRIPTION

       The methods getOpenFile and getSaveFile pop up a dialog box for the
       user to select a file to open or save.

       The getOpenFile method is usually associated with the Open command in
       the File menu.  Its purpose is for the user to select an existing file
       only.  If the user enters an non-existent file, the dialog box gives
       the user an error prompt and requires the user to give an alternative
       selection. If an application allows the user to create new files, it
       should do so by providing a separate New menu command.

       The getSaveFile method is usually associated with the Save as command
       in the File menu. If the user enters a file that already exists, the
       dialog box prompts the user for confirmation whether the existing file
       should be overwritten or not.

       If the user selects a file, both getOpenFile and getSaveFile return the
       full pathname of this file. If the user cancels the operation, both
       commands return an undefined value.

       The following option-value pairs are possible as command line arguments
       to these two commands:

       -defaultextension => extension
           Specifies a string that will be appended to the filename if the
           user enters a filename without an extension. The default value is
           the empty string, which means no extension will be appended to the
           filename in any case. This option is ignored on the Macintosh
           platform, which does not require extensions to filenames, and the
           UNIX implementation guesses reasonable values  for  this from the
           -filetypes option when this is not supplied.

       -filetypes => [filePattern ?, ...?]
           If a File types listbox exists in the file dialog on the particular
           platform, this option gives the filetypes in this listbox. When the
           user choose a filetype in the listbox, only the files of that type
           are listed. If this option is unspecified, or if it is set to the
           empty list, or if the File types listbox is not supported by the
           particular platform then all files are listed regardless of their
           types. See "SPECIFYING FILE PATTERNS" below for a discussion on the
           contents of filePatterns.

       -initialdir => directory
           Specifies that the files in directory should be displayed when the
           dialog pops up. If this parameter is not specified, then the files
           in the current working directory are displayed.  This option may
           not always work on the Macintosh.  This is not a bug.  Rather, the
           General Controls control panel on the Mac allows the end user to
           override the application default directory.

       -initialfile => filename
           Specifies a filename to be displayed in the dialog when it pops up.
           This option is ignored by the getOpenFile method.

       -multiple
           Allows the user to choose multiple files from the Open dialog.  On
           the Macintosh, this is only available when Navigation Services are
           installed.

       -message => string
           Specifies a message to include in the client area of the dialog.
           This is only available on the Macintosh, and only when Navigation
           Services are installed.

       -title => titleString
           Specifies a string to display as the title of the dialog box. If
           this option is not specified, then a default title is displayed.
           This option is ignored on the Macintosh platform.


SPECIFYING FILE PATTERNS

       The filePatterns given by the -filetypes option are a list of file
       patterns. Each file pattern is a list of the form

        typeName [extension ?extension ...?] ?[macType ?macType ...?]?

       typeName is the name of the file type described by this file pattern
       and is the text string that appears in the File types listbox.
       extension is a file extension for this file pattern.  macType is a
       four-character Macintosh file type. The list of macTypes is optional
       and may be omitted for applications that do not need to execute on the
       Macintosh platform.

       Several file patterns may have the same typeName, in which case they
       refer to the same file type and share the same entry in the listbox.
       When the user selects an entry in the listbox, all the files that match
       at least one of the file patterns corresponding to that entry are
       listed. Usually, each file pattern corresponds to a distinct type of
       file. The use of more than one file patterns for one type of file is
       necessary on the Macintosh platform only.

       On the Macintosh platform, a file matches a file pattern if its name
       matches at least one of the extension(s) AND it belongs to at least one
       of the macType(s) of the file pattern. For example, the C Source Files
       file pattern in the sample code matches with files that have a \.c
       extension AND belong to the macType TEXT. To use the OR rule instead,
       you can use two file patterns, one with the extensions only and the
       other with the macType only. The GIF Files file type in the sample code
       matches files that EITHER have a \.gif extension OR belong to the
       macType GIFF.

       On the Unix and Windows platforms, a file matches a file pattern if its
       name matches at at least one of the extension(s) of the file pattern.
       The macTypes are ignored.


SPECIFYING EXTENSIONS

       On the Unix and Macintosh platforms, extensions are matched using glob-
       style pattern matching. On the Windows platforms, extensions are
       matched by the underlying operating system. The types of possible
       extensions are: (1) the special extension * matches any file; (2) the
       special extension "" matches any files that do not have an extension
       (i.e., the filename contains no full stop character); (3) any character
       string that does not contain any wild card characters (* and ?).

       Due to the different pattern matching rules on the various platforms,
       to ensure portability, wild card characters are not allowed in the
       extensions, except as in the special extension *. Extensions without a
       full stop character (e.g, ~) are allowed but may not work on all
       platforms.


CAVEATS

       See "CAVEATS" in Tk::chooseDirectory.


EXAMPLE

        my $types = [
            ['Text Files',       ['.txt', '.text']],
            ['TCL Scripts',      '.tcl'           ],
            ['C Source Files',   '.c',      'TEXT'],
            ['GIF Files',        '.gif',          ],
            ['GIF Files',        '',        'GIFF'],
            ['All Files',        '*',             ],
        ];
        my $filename = $widget->getOpenFile(-filetypes=>$types);

        if ($filename ne "") {
            # Open the file ...
        }


SEE ALSO

       Tk::FBox, Tk::FileSelect


KEYWORDS

       file selection dialog



perl v5.18.0                      2012-11-12                    getOpenFile(3)

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