file dialog box

i asked a little bit ago if there was a way to
get a nice apple-ish dialog box to choose files
for input; Tom pointed me in the right direction
(Thanks, Tom!) - and here's my code snippet:

def select_file(file_type):
 
    # Initialize a standard Mac filebrowser.
    filebrowser = NSOpenPanel.openPanel()
    # set the title of the choose-me button
    filebrowser.setPrompt_(file_type)
    # set the window name in the title bar
    filebrowser.setTitle_(file_type)
 
    # We'll open the filebrowser to let the user select files.
    # Code execution will halt until the user either presses  
    # "Cancel" or the select button    
    result = filebrowser.runModalForDirectory_file_types_(None, None, ["aim", "txt", "lut", "foo"])
 
    if (result == NSOKButton):
        # If "Open" was pressed, we have some files waiting for us.
        return filebrowser.filenames()
 
...
 
file_path = select_file("Select Aim File")

sorry, but i lost the end of one of the lines.
i'll be more careful next time. here's the
whole line:

result = filebrowser.runModalForDirectory_file_types_
(None, None, ["aim", "txt", "lut", "arriden"])

Oops, i forgot this:

from AppKit import *

Hi Chris, I've generalized your script a bit further:

from AppKit import NSOpenPanel, NSOKButton
 
def select_file(title="Open", types=[]):
    filebrowser = NSOpenPanel.openPanel()
    filebrowser.setTitle_(title)
    result = filebrowser.runModalForDirectory_file_types_(None, None, types)
    if (result == NSOKButton):
        return filebrowser.filenames()
        
print select_file("Select Aim File", ["aim", "txt", "lut", "foo"])