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) ______________________________________________________________________________ NAME tk_chooseDirectory - pops up a dialog box for the user to select a directory. SYNOPSIS tk_chooseDirectory ?option value ...? ______________________________________________________________________________ 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)