tkFileDialog without a parent window

[Stephen Boulet]

I'm using the following code to get a file name:

import tkFileDialog
tkFileDialog.as kopenfilename(f iletypes=[("HDF Files", ".hdf")])

How can I do this without an empty tk window popping up and hanging around
after the dialog is closed? Thanks.

-- Stephen

[Mike Abel]

Re: tkFileDialog without a parent window

Stephen Boulet <stephen.boulet @motorola.com> wrote:
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> How can I do this without an empty tk window popping up and hanging around
> after the dialog is closed? Thanks.[/color]


Well i think this is probably a problem in your script not a
problem from tkFileDialog.

Mike

[klappnase]

Re: tkFileDialog without a parent window

Stephen Boulet <stephen.boulet @motorola.com> wrote in message news:<be21e4$tr p$1@localhost.l ocaldomain>...[color=blue]
> I'm using the following code to get a file name:
>
> import tkFileDialog
> tkFileDialog.as kopenfilename(f iletypes=[("HDF Files", ".hdf")])
>
> How can I do this without an empty tk window popping up and hanging around
> after the dialog is closed? Thanks.
>
> -- Stephen[/color]

Hi,

you may use the withdraw() method on the root window:

root = Tk()
root.withdraw()
somefile = tkFileDialog.as kopenfilename(f iletypes=[("HDF Files", ".hdf")])
....

Cheers

michael