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<div><br></div><div>You should be able to set that variable in pd.tk and have it work without modifying the other file. Try just adding</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 99, 18); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 99, 18); "><pre><font color="#000000">set ::tk::dialog::file::showHiddenBtn 1</font>
<font color="#000000">set ::tk::dialog::file::showHiddenVar 0</font>
</pre></span><pre><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Somewhere near the top of the pd.tk.</span></pre><pre><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">.hc</span></pre></span></div><br><div><html>On Apr 2, 2008, at 2:17 PM, danomatika wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> IOhannes, you found the magic bullet (or forum post, that is)!<br> <br> 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> <br> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:55 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: <blockquote type="CITE"> <pre><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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