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| TIP: | 382 |
| Title: | Add -nocomplain Option to tk_getSaveFile |
| Version: | $Revision: 1.1 $ |
| Author: | Pawel Salawa <pawelsalawa at gmail dot com> |
| State: | Draft |
| Type: | Project |
| Tcl-Version: | 8.7 |
| Vote: | Pending |
| Created: | Tuesday, 02 November 2010 |
| Keywords: | Tk, dialog |
This document describes new option for tk_getSaveFile named -nocomplain that turns off the warning dialog when selecting an existing file for overwriting.
There's been numerous requests for support for file dialog that allows to select a file name with no matter if it exists or not. One workaround was to use ttk::getAppendFile from http://wiki.tcl.tk/15897, but it used its own file dialog, instead of native one. This TIP makes use of native file dialog.
Option name is chosen to fit into Tcl naming convention and be intuitive. The glob command already supports option with that name and it's used for similar purpose.
The tk_getSaveFile would support -nocomplain option with boolean value as its argument. Default value for this option would be "false". If value for this option is "true", then the dialog won't warn user in case he selects existing file, that he's about to overwrite the file. The option would be available only for tk_getSaveFile and won't be available for tk_getOpenFile.
There's no support for MacOS X platform, since Cocoa framework doesn't provide public API to accomplish that. Therefore a platform-specific note would be required in Tk documentation. Maybe this will be supported on MacOS X platform in future.
http://joanna18.net.autocom.pl/~boogie/nocomplain.patch
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This is not necessarily the current version of this TIP.