Exposing . directories in the Finder window

A friend is writing a program that opens a Finder window to facilitate the selection of a configuration file. In this case, one potential location of a file resides in a prefixed "." directory (ie: /Users/rob/.name) which is not exposed in the Finder window -- and there doesn't appear to be a way to force that through the API.

It seems like a simple enough problem to solve; however, I wonder if someone here might have run into this before and have a solution.


Thanks...