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IOhannes, you found the magic bullet (or forum post, that is)!<BR>
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Awesome, I can confirm this works in a little test script and screenshot. It's a button to toggle<BR>
hidden file display as expected.<BR>
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On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:55 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> This would be huge, it would greatly help the newbies. In workshops, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> a lot of people had trouble with those open/save panels.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> There are quite a few apps written with Tcl/Tk for GNU/Linux, so I am </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> sure we are not the first to want this feature. I would be very </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> surprised if another Tcl/Tk app hasn't solved this already.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">according to <A HREF="http://www.groupsrv.com/computers/about266840.html">http://www.groupsrv.com/computers/about266840.html</A> it is </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">acutally already built into tk-8.4 but not exposed!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">quoting this article:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> > If you have Tcl/Tk 8.4.12, find the file "tkfbox.tcl" in your Tk</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> > installation. At line 777, you will see:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> > set ::tk::dialog::file::showHiddenBtn 0</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> > set ::tk::dialog::file::showHiddenVar 1</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> > Replace them by:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> > set ::tk::dialog::file::showHiddenBtn 1</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> > set ::tk::dialog::file::showHiddenVar 0</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> > And you're done...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">mfgasd.r</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">IOhannes</FONT>
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