The file selection dialogs on windows and mac use native dialogs. Only on unix-like platforms a very simple scripted dialog is used. This project was started to provide a better looking dialog for those platforms.

After a while people started to use this dialog on windows as well because of some of the features it provides.

Features

• Show directories in a separate pane or mixed-in with the files
• Optionally show details of the files (size, modification time, etc.)
• Show or hide hidden files
• Sort the files by name, date, or size
• The user can interactively control the features mentioned above
• Select a directory using the file selection dialog

Available commands

• ttk::getOpenFile
• ttk::getSaveFile
• ttk::chooseDirectory
• ttk::getAppendFile (obsoleted by the -confirmoverwrite option)

For more information, see the ttk::getOpenFile and ttk::getSaveFile manual page and the ttk::chooseDirectory manual page.