saveDialog

emlib.dialogs.saveDialog(filter='All (*.*)', title='Save file', directory='~', backend=None)[source]

Open a dialog to save a file.

Note

At the moment macos only supports the ‘qt’ backend

Parameters:

  • filter – a string of the form “<Mask> (<glob>)”. Multiple filters can be used, for example: "Image (*.png, *.jpg);; Video (*.mp4, *.mov)"

  • title – the title of the dialog

  • directory (str) – the initial directory

  • backend (Optional[str]) – one of ‘qt’, ‘tkinter’ or None to select the backend based on available packages

Return type:

str

Returns:

the save filename, or an empty string if the dialog is dismissed