Drag and drop explorer files to tkinter entry widget?

Question

I\'m fairly new to Python. I\'m trying to input a file name (complete with full path) to a TKinter entry widget. Since the path to the file name can be very long I would l

Answer 1

Things have progressed since this question was originally posted, and tkdnd2.8 (Tcl extensions) and TkinterDnD2 (Python wrapper for tkdnd2.8) are readily available on SourceForge.net.

Here's minimal sample code to do exactly what you've asked.

import Tkinter
from TkinterDnD2 import *

def drop(event):
    entry_sv.set(event.data)

root = TkinterDnD.Tk()
entry_sv = Tkinter.StringVar()
entry = Tkinter.Entry(root, textvar=entry_sv, width=80)
entry.pack(fill=Tkinter.X)
entry.drop_target_register(DND_FILES)
entry.dnd_bind('<>', drop)
root.mainloop()

You can see How to Install and Use TkDnD with Python 2.7 Tkinter on OSX for download and installation info for both Windows and Mac on Python 2.7 and 3.6.