NAME

RemoteFileSelect.pm--Browse directories with FTP.

SYNOPSIS

use Tk::RemoteFileSelect;

my $dialog;  # Reference to RemoteFileSelect widget.
my $file;    # File selected in the widget.

$dialog = $mw -> RemoteFileSelect( -directory => '.' );
$file = $dialog -> Show;

DESCRIPTION

A RemoteFileSelect dialog displays list boxes for subdirectories and files, a directory entry and a file name entry, and buttons for each of the widget's operations.

Tk::RemoteFileSelect -> Show () returns the file's path name when clicking on the, "Accept," button. Show () also returns a file name after pressing, "Enter," after typing a name in the file entry, or after double clicking on a file name.

If Net::FTP is installed, RemoteFileSelect enables the, "Host," button. Clicking on, "Host," prompts for the name of a remote system, and user name and password. After logging in with FTP, the dialog can browse and select files using the remote FTP server.

When selecting files without logging in to a remote system, RemoteFileSelect returns the file's path like a Tk::FileSelect dialog.

After logging in to a FTP server, however, RemoteFileSelect returns path names of files in the the following format.

host:/full-pathname-of-file

If RemoteFileSelect cannot find and load Net::FTP, then the widget behaves like a FileSelect dialog, and the, "Host," button is grayed out.

OPTIONS

Name: width

Switch: -width

Width of the file and directory list boxes.

Name: height

Switch: -height

Height of the file and directory list boxes.

Name: directory

Switch: -directory

Name: initialdir

Switch: -initialdir

Specifies the initial directory when selecting files on a local system.

Name: remotedirectory

Switch: -remotedirectory

Specifies the initial directory to start in after connecting to remote hosts. Value may be a directory or a hash reference which specifies host and directory; e.g.

-remotedirectory => { host1 => /some/directory, host2 => /other/directory }

Name: filelabel

Switch: -filelabel

Text of the file entry label.

Name: filelistlabel

Switch: -filelistlabel

Text of the file list box title.

Name: filter

Switch: -filter

Display file names that match the file glob pattern of the value.

Name: hostname

Switch: -hostname

Initial value of the remote host name.

Name: transcript

Switch: -transcript

Print a transcript of the FTP session to standard output.

Name: userid

Switch: -userid

The initial value of the remote user ID.

Name: dirlistlabel

Switch: -dirlistlabel

Text of the directory list title.

Name: dirlabel

Switch: -dirlabel

Text of the directory entry label.

Name: acceptlabel

Switch: -acceptlabel

Text of the Accept button label.

Name: hostlabel

Switch: -hostlabel

Text of the Host button label.

Name: cancellabel

Switch: -cancellabel

Text of the Cancel button label.

Name: resetlabel

Switch: -resetlabel

Text of the Reset button label.

Name: homelabel

Switch: -homelabel

Text of the Home button label.

Name: uidlabel

Switch: -uidlabel

Text of the user name entry label.

Name: pwdlabel

Switch: -pwdlabel

Text of the password entry label.

Name: verify

Switch: -verify

The value is an anonymous array that contains the operators for file verification, normally qw(! -d -w).

BUGS

The -initialfile, -userid, and -password values do not appear in the entry widgets.

Older versions of Net::FTP (for example, the version distributed with Perl 5.6.1), can cause Perl/Tk windows to freeze when changing to a subdirectory of a directory referred to by a symbolic link.

VERSION INFO

Version 0.60.

CREDITS

Robert Kiesling <rkies@cpan.org>, based on Tk::FileSelect.

Persistent login information added by dougw@cpan.org.

Licensed under the same terms as Perl. Refer to the file, "Artistic," for information.

SEE ALSO

Tk(3), Tk::FileSelect(3)