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chooseDirectory(3pm)  User Contributed Perl Documentation chooseDirectory(3pm)

NAME
       Tk::chooseDirectory - pops up a dialog box for the user to select a
       directory.

SYNOPSIS
       $widget->chooseDirectory( ?option value ...? );

DESCRIPTION
       The method chooseDirectory is implemented as a perl wrapper on the core
       tk "command" tk_chooseDirectory, and $widget is passed as the argument
       to the hidden -parent option.

       The chooseDirectory method 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, then
	   the directories in the current working directory are displayed. If
	   the parameter specifies a relative path, the return value will
	   convert the relative path to an absolute path.  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.

       -parent $widget
	   Makes $widget the logical parent of the dialog. The dialog is
	   displayed on top of its 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
	   displayed.

       -mustexist boolean
	   Specifies whether the user may specify non-existant directories.
	   If this parameter is true, then the user may only select
	   directories that already exist.  The default value is false.

CAVEATS
       Perl does not have a concept of encoded filesystems yet. This means
       that operations on filenames like "opendir" and "open" still use byte
       semantics. Tk however uses character semantics internally, which means
       that you can get filenames with the UTF-8 flag set in functions like
       "chooseDirectory", "getOpenFile" and similar. It's the user's
       responsibility to determine the encoding of the underlying filesystem
       and convert the result into bytes, e.g.

	   use Encode;
	   ...
	   my $dir = $mw->chooseDirectory;
	   $dir = encode("windows-1252", $dir);
	   opendir DIR, $dir or die $!;
	   ...

       See also "When Unicode Does Not Happen" in perlunicode and "Unicode in
       Filenames" in perltodo.

EXAMPLE
	   my $dir = $mw->chooseDirectory(-initialdir => '~',
					  -title => 'Choose a directory');
	   if (!defined $dir) {
	       warn 'No directory selected';
	   } else {
	       warn "Selected $dir";
	   }

SEE ALSO
       Tk::getOpenFile, Tk::getOpenFile

KEYWORDS
       directory selection dialog

perl v5.26.0			  2017-07-22		  chooseDirectory(3pm)
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