Bugs item #1611821, was opened at 2006-12-09 07:35
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Category: 37. [tk_get*File]
Group: current: 8.4.14
Status: Open
> Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 6
Private: No
Submitted By: Jeffrey Hobbs (hobbs)
Assigned to: Daniel A. Steffen (das)
Summary: tk_getSaveFile -initialfile odd behavior

Initial Comment:
If you do:

set someRealFile /Library/Tcl/Tclapplescript/pkgIndex.tcl
tk_getSaveFile -initialfile $someRealFile

the dialog converts the / to -.  The workaround is to separate file and dir segments for -in
itialdir and -initialfile, but that is not the way Tk docs it, so it really is a Tk/Aqua bug
.

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> Comment By: Daniel A. Steffen (das)
Date: 2006-12-14 10:52

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the reason for this is that NavServices does not expect the -initialfile
param to be a path but a filename in the -initialdir, and hence it munges
any chars in the -initialfile that are illegal for filenames.
What behaviour did you expect to see in this case exactly? the docs are
not clear what to do with a path for -initialfile IMO, indeed getOpenFile.n
says -initialfile is a "filename" (and that -initialfile is not implemented
on the Mac, along with other obsolete Mac info; doc bug).
We could extract any initial path component from the -initialfile param
and handle it as if -initialdir had also been given, but what to do when
both -initialdir and -initialfile with a path are present?

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