tkFileDialog without a parent window

[Stephen Boulet]

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

import tkFileDialog
tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(filetypes=[("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]

Stephen Boulet <st************@motorola.com> wrote:

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

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

Mike

[klappnase]

Stephen Boulet <st************@motorola.com> wrote in message news:<be**********@localhost.localdomain>...

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

import tkFileDialog
tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(filetypes=[("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

Hi,

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

root = Tk()
root.withdraw()
somefile = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(filetypes=[("HDF Files", ".hdf")])
....

Cheers

michael