Hi Jeff,

It's the first time I've seen that one. I've always used:

tk_getSaveFile -initialdir $somedir

That works fine. A possible work-around for TclApp until the Tk core team
fix the bug?


-PC.

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
>  Hi Peter,
> 
>  peterc wrote:
> > First up, thanks to all ActiveState who developed TDK4. Mac OS X
> > support is very very much appreciated.
> 
>  Thanks.  It took longer to get out than anticipated, but hopefully we
>  can get it to work just as well there as it has for other platforms.
> 
> > Now, a bug report:
> >
> > 'File -> Save Project As' in Tclapp demands you save filenames such as:
> >
> >  -Users-pc-TCL-Project-File.tpj
> >
> > Instead of:
> >
> >  /Users/pc/TCL/Project/File.tpj
> >
> > At a guess, maybe [file native] is giving the wrong result for OS X and
> > considers it a previous version of Mac OS? (OS X uses Unix style file
> > notation.)
> >
> > Platform: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on PPC (Mac Mini).
> 
>  Are you not getting the native Mac OS X dialog?
> 
>  Ah - now I see it.  OK, after the first save, when you do the Save As
>  for an existing project, it is somehow converting.  This seems to be a
>  Tk core bug (oddity).  Do this:
> 
>  tk_getSaveFile -initialfile /Users/pc/TCL/Project/File.tpj
> 
>  and you will see it convert the / to - in the dialog.  The workaround is
>  to separate file and dir segments for -initialdir and -initialfile, but
>  that is not the way Tk docs it, so it really is a Tk/Aqua bug.
> 
>  Jeff