From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-10-29 17:07:34
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Bugs item #829003, was opened at 2003-10-23 17:54 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by pballing You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=112997&aid=829003&group_id=12997 Category: MacOS X Specific Group: 8.4.4 Status: Closed Resolution: Invalid Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Jim Ingham (wolfsuit) Summary: Tk_getOpenFile in Aqua requires that initialfile exists Initial Comment: Tcl/Tk 8.4.4 Aqua for MacOS X (rel. 10.2.8) requires that a file specified as initial file exist. Example: set FileName [tk_getOpenFile -initialfile example.txt] If the file example does not exists, tk_getOpenFile aborts with the message bad initialfile "example.txt" file does not exist. On other platforms incl. fink the initial file name is listed by the widget. The Aqua widget has no room for this and a suitable behaviour could be just to ignore the initialfile name if the file does not exist. Furthermore, file types are ignored. Thus even set FileName [tk_getOpenFile -filetypes { {{Text Files} {.txt}} }] is specified, all files in the directory are listed. Peter Balling pba...@as... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Peter Balling (pballing) Date: 2003-10-29 18:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=893234 Thanks for the info on 'tk windowing system'. I wrote that that tk_getOpenFile aborted (and it left me being unable to open any file before the'application was changed. It did not crash Tcl/Tk or the application). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Vince Darley (vincentdarley) Date: 2003-10-29 16:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=32170 Obviously it shouldn't crash, but according to your original report, it doesn't crash -- it just throws a nice helpful Tcl error message. To distinguish between Fink and Aqua, use 'tk windowingsystem'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Peter Balling (pballing) Date: 2003-10-29 16:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=893234 But the open dialog should not crash. I had to rewrite my application setting -initalfile names for non existing files to "" for Tk_getOpenFile in Aqua. This was complicated by the fact that tcl_platform does not seem to distinguish between Aqua Tcl/Tk and Fink Tcl/Tk where the problem does not exist. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Donal K. Fellows (dkf) Date: 2003-10-29 15:45 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=79902 The general model is that [tk_getOpenFile] is for getting the name of an existing file to open, and [tk_getSaveFile] is for getting the name of a file (possibly existing, possibly not) to save the current program state (in some sense, hopefully obvious!) as. Opening something based on a template is a different way of working that lies outside the scope of those commands (and that's expected to be the case on all platforms.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Peter Balling (pballing) Date: 2003-10-29 14:41 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=893234 The reason for having a non-existing file in the open dialog may be to have it act as either a template to change interactively or start as a pattern to start a search. The Tcl/Tk man pages allow -initialfile both for Tk_getOpenFile and Tk_getSaveFile and do not state that the file must exist. This is allowed on other platforms. It should be allow for Aqua as well for compatibility and simply ignored, not crashing the open dialog. pba...@as... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jim Ingham (wolfsuit) Date: 2003-10-23 18:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=169107 Sorry, but I don't see the point of listing a non-existant file name in an Open dialog. There is no place to list this in the Aqua widget because the Nav Services dialog for opening files doesn't have a place to list it. But again, what would be the point? If it doesn't exist, you aren't going to be able to open it anyway... The part about file types is a separate bug. Don't put two bugs in one report, it makes tracking bugs harder. But you don't need to report the filetypes failure, there is a bug about this already. The NavServices started passing FSRef's to the filter proc rather than FSSpec's in 10.2, and I need to rev the filter proc to handle both structures... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=112997&aid=829003&group_id=12997 |