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Re: getOpenFile etc. wish-list
From: Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk>
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 01:05:45 CET
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 01:05:45 CET
That's in many ways beside the point. For various reasons, deploying
changes in the tk_get{Open,Save}File API onto all the supported
platforms is *very* hard. The problem is making Win and Mac do sensible
things with everything (Win is especially brain-dead); if you can get
an "acceptable" solution without an API change, please do that since
the alternative is a world of pain as far as I can tell. In the case of
Unix hidden file handling, I think this is possible and reasonable.
(Indeed, I believe you could even get away with always starting in the
"don't show hidden" mode, which would make things even easier to code!)
Donal.
Received on Sun Apr 30 02:16:19 2006