Question

Say we are having entry box and a button. When user press the button, it should take path from entry box and open the corresponding folder. How can I do it using Perl/TK? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You might make a system call to the command line process that opens the file browser. On windows this is apparently the start command, on Linux something like gnome-open or nautilus would work.

sub open_directory {
  my $directory = shift;

  if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') {
    exec "start $directory";
  } elsif ($^O = 'linux') {
    exec "gnome-open $directory" or
    exec "kde-open $directory";
  # test for more OS cases
  } else {
    die "cannot open folder on your system: $^O";
  }
}