Win32gui... file dialogs?

[Kevin Cazabon]

Unfortunately, I'm one of the "unwashed masses" that doesn't usually build C
on my Windows box... I've dabbled, but I've never spent the time to figure
out all the crap with Visual Studio.

q:]

I've been pursuing this on the Tcl/Tk front too, and there's rumors that the
next alpha release should support multiple selection in the file dialog.
Now, of course, to use Tcl 8.3 and above, I need to port to Python 1.6....
ARGH!  (and of course, the initial release of the new Tcl/Tk that supports
multi-selection will be sources only anyways...)

How big of a deal would it be to add the multiple selection flag to
win32ui.CreateFileDialog?  I'm sure you have a bunch'o'stuff on your to do
list... I'll gladly do any Python coding that is required, but my C is very
very rusty...

Do you take bribes, Mark?  q:]


Kevin Cazabon.



"Mark Hammond" <MarkH at ActiveState.com> wrote in message
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| > There's a win32gui.GetOpenFileName function, but I can't find
| > usable docs on it; trying to call it elicits the info that it
| > requires a 76-byte string, but it's hard to fathom what is to
| > go into that string.
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| It is worth recalling that win32gui was actually created for Windows
| CE, where I didnt want to bloat the module with support for all the
| win32 structures you may need.  Hence I went the string route, and
| assume you will use struct etc to get at it.  Far far from ideal, I
| agree.  Longer term though, .py wrappers can hide this.
|
| win32ui.CreateFileDialog() is pretty close, but alas it does not
| support multiple selections either.  It would not be hard to add this
| support tho - if you are interested and able to build from sources (or
| wait for a future build) I can add it.
|
| OTOH, maybe working out the struct magic for win32gui, and putting
| that into a .py file would be a better option?
|
| Mark.
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