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I would like to create a dialog box which pops up when the user click on a button from a Python Add-In toolbar.

The user will navigate to their preferred file and select any shapefiles they wish to add to ArcMap.

I found this code:

 import Tkinter, tkFileDialog root = Tkinter.Tk() root.withdraw() file_path = tkFileDialog.askopenfile()

but the dialog box is ALMOST opening and then ArcMap crashes.

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  • Use PyQT instead Commented Apr 18, 2015 at 0:48
  • I am not familiar with PyQT. Is that another programming language? Commented Apr 18, 2015 at 2:45
  • It's another graphics library Commented Apr 18, 2015 at 2:46

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Since you're using a python addin, you could use the pythonaddins.OpenDialog method. Slightly modified example based on the documentation:

This add-in button uses OpenDialog() to select a set of layer files and adds each layer to the selected data frame.

import arcpy import pythonaddins class AddLayers(object): def __init__(self): self.enabled = True self.checked = False def onClick(self): layer_files = pythonaddins.OpenDialog('Select Layers', True, r'C:\GISData', 'Add') mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument('current') df = mxd.activeDataFrame for dataset in datasets: layer = arcpy.mapping.Layer(dataset) arcpy.mapping.AddLayer(df, layer)
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