what is the easy GUI way to select file (or directory) on Win and MacOSX?

[Anonymous Monk]

Hello,

I would like to let users of software I develop to select file (or a directory - depending on situation) using GUI - on Win32 and MacOSX.
For Win32, one could code it using Win32::GUI - but may be there are already commandline utilities to do this (like gdialog, but not requiring an X server) - for Win32 and OSX? Do you know any?

Thanks in advance for your answers!

[Corion]

If you have Tk, there is Tk::FileSelect. The native Win32 way is through the BrowseForFolder function living in Win32::FileOp.

[Washizu]

In OSX you'll still have to run X11.app if you use Tk. It should work fine on Win32.

[aufflick]

Actaully there is quite a good port of tk for Aqua (native OSX window system). Older versions were quite buggy but I think it's good now.

The standalone installer is only 2Mb. http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/

[hiseldl]

Since you're using command line, I'd like to suggest a TUI interface...Curses Dev Kit. It's got a curses file-select widget.

If you want to test it out, I suggest getting the cdk and the cdk-perl tarballs from the site link above and do not use the CPAN version, which is out of date. This does require that you have ncurses installed as well.

HTH.

[wazoox]

If you don't mind cracking a nut with a ten tons sledgehammer, WxPerl is the way to go. However you'll have to install several tens of megabytes of WxWidgets libraries to display a single file selector window :) But hey, it will works on Unix/Linux too ;)

[Anonymous Monk]

I forgot to add - the software I develop is commandline-based - for batch job, it has no GUI currently..