Hi! Is there a function in Julia similar to file.choose() in R or tkinter.askopenfilename() in python that allows to browse through the filesystem and returns a path string? I searched a bit, but did not come across anything like that for Julia. Thanks! Alex

Done! :partying_face: Now to wait the 3 day period till auto-merge. Any issues or commentaries are welcomed in the issues section .

[image] Choose a file interactively General Usage In R, the function file.choose() exists to choose files interactively. This is nice when sharing code with someone who is not a programmer. Is there anything similar in Julia?

Hi Alex! A similar question was posted here How do you open a "Choose File" prompt from Julia? - #3 by Iulian.Cioarca Only 1 year old, perhaps it helps @Jeff_Emanuel beat me to it! (Another post albeit) :smiley: Kind regards

Thank you both, @Jeff_Emanuel and @Ahmed_Salih ! However, while installing Gtk lots of useful packages, such as DataFrames and ScientificTypes and MLJ, have been seriously downgraded and I need the functionality of the newer versions. So, I was forced to uninstall Gtk. Is there any other alternativ…

Maybe https://github.com/barche/QML.jl works better for you.

As noted in another thread on the same topic , Gtk.open_dialog("...some prompt...") works, at the cost of pulling in a Gtk dependency. Another possibility, as discussed in Pluto.jl#350 , would be to wrap this library (or similar) in a JLL (binary package) and then write a Julia wrapper: https://githu…

Thanks @stevengj ! I can see the logic…but I am a simple language user. And if @fonsp says that he cannot do it, imagine a beginner that I am. :slight_smile: https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/issues/350#issuecomment-687776235 I think that this sort of functionality would make everybody’s life much…

[image] Alex_Tantos: However, while installing Gtk lots of useful packages, such as DataFrames and ScientificTypes and MLJ , have been seriously downgraded Fyi, all the latest versions of those packages could be installed in Win10 Julia 1.7.0-beta4 with no worries: DataFrames v1.2.2 Gtk v1.1…

I wrote this monstrosity a few years ago for my use on Windows. It shells out to PowerShell to create a file dialog then parses the results. Needed a tweak to get the uigetfile function working again (I’m using PS7 compared to PS5 when I wrote it) the others would probably need tweaks too. Obviously…

Thanks for letting me know, @rafael.guerra ! I will try installing 1.7 and will give you the heads up about anything new I learn about this. For the time being, am using and combining inline utilities such as pwd() and split(read(`ls`, String), "\n") to get back directories’ contents.

There shouldn’t be a need to download 1.7 for this. That’s overkill (plus, 1.7 is still in beta). Most likely the downgrades are nothing to worry about.

`file.choose()` in `Julia`?

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`file.choose()` in `Julia`?

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