tk_chooseDirectory - pops up a dialog box for the user to select a directory.
tk_chooseDirectory ?option value ...?
tk_chooseDirectory(1t) Tk Built-In Commands tk_chooseDirectory(1t)
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NAME
tk_chooseDirectory - pops up a dialog box for the user to select a
directory.
SYNOPSIS
tk_chooseDirectory ?option value ...?
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DESCRIPTION
The procedure tk_chooseDirectory pops up a dialog box for the user to
select a directory. The following option-value pairs are possible as
command line arguments:
-initialdir dirname
Specifies that the directories in directory should be displayed
when the dialog pops up. If this parameter is not specified, the
initial directory defaults to the current working directory on
non-Windows systems and on Windows systems prior to Vista. On
Vista and later systems, the initial directory defaults to the
last user-selected directory for the application. If the parame-
ter specifies a relative path, the return value will convert the
relative path to an absolute path.
-mustexist boolean
Specifies whether the user may specify non-existent directories.
If this parameter is true, then the user may only select direc-
tories that already exist. The default value is false.
-parent window
Makes window the logical parent of the dialog. The dialog is
displayed on top of its parent window. On Mac OS X, this turns
the file dialog into a sheet attached to the parent window.
-title titleString
Specifies a string to display as the title of the dialog box. If
this option is not specified, then a default title will be dis-
played.
EXAMPLE
set dir [tk_chooseDirectory \
-initialdir ~ -title "Choose a directory"]
if {$dir eq ""} {
label .l -text "No directory selected"
} else {
label .l -text "Selected $dir"
}
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | runtime/tk-8 |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
tk_getOpenFile(n), tk_getSaveFile(n)
KEYWORDS
directory, selection, dialog, platform-specific
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://source-
forge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/8.6.7/tk8.6.7-src.tar.gz/download.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.tcl.tk/.
Tk 8.3 tk_chooseDirectory(1t)