[Tkinter-discuss] file dialog changes

[Emiliano Gavilan]

The "problem" seems to be Tcl/Tk tip 432 (
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/432 ).
Apparently your "new" installation provides an older version of Tk. You
need Tcl/Tk 8.6.3 or newer to see the modern dialogs.

Regards
Emiliano


2017-02-22 11:28 GMT-03:00 CAB via Tkinter-discuss <
tkinter-discuss at python.org>:

> Hi, All,
>
> I have been happily developing applications in a Win32/Python 2.7
> environment for years, now.  I recently decided I needed to update multiple
> python packages, so I installed Anaconda on my Win7 computer.  Everything
> is more or less fine (once I dealt with some backward compatibility
> issues), but I noticed that the file dialogs called by tkinter are
> different now.  Here is what askopenfilename used to look like:
> [image: Inline image]
> I like it!
>
> But here is the new version:
> [image: Inline image]
> Blech!
>
> I have googled the bejeezus out of this, but I can't find an explanation
> for the difference.  I think it must boil down to differences in Tk/Tcl, or
> a setting therein, or possibly pywin32.  But I just haven't been able to
> figure it out.  Obviously, I'd like to go back to the old appearance.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions to fix this problem, I would be most
> appreciative.
>
> Best,
> Chad
>
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