Open windows file explorer

Hi everyone,

I´m wondering how can I open a windows file explorer in my unity game. I have seen several assets to create a file browser in Unity, but I prefer that my game open a regular windows file explorer (if is posible for Mac too )
Thanks a lot in advance!!

 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa984392(v=vs.71).aspx

I've wanted to know how to do stuff like this as well.

I don't know exactly how well this'll work but you're going to have to look into raw c# methods of doing this. Unity doesn't have a built-in method to do this in your game.

In the editor, it does, though

 

I´m using: System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("explorer.exe","/select,"+path);
On this way, it show a regular explorer window, but I want to be able to select (like in open option in any program) a specific file to open in my game.

Thanks!!

 

It sounds like you need to create a custom file dialog.

Check out the c# directory class, it has all the functionality required to build your own file dialog.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directory(v=vs.110).aspx

 

Hello,

I made a Asset to use the Native File Browser from Windows and Mac in Unity at runtime, it's available on the Asset Store: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/68064

I've been searching for a way to do that for more than a year... and finally found how to do it

 

Sorry for opening an old thread. I found this pretty good Github project that does exactly what has been asked (PC/MAC): https://github.com/gkngkc/UnityStandaloneFileBrowser

 

Once I have showed in a file browser a .png file with UnityStandaloneFileBrowser project, do you think is possible to open it with a specific app? My goal is to offer a way to find and print an image

 

I don't think so. You decide via Windows what files are opened with what app, but I might be wrong.

 

You can take a look at this for windows: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/integration/lcprinter-simple-texture-printer-67594 (I have no idea if it works or not, have no experience with it!)
Theoretically you can call the standard printer libraries, but I have no idea if it's supported on any other platforms (and of course you will need to write platform-dependent code because Unity does not have platform-independent support for printers).

 

for some reason when i tried to open a compressed zip file, it only opens up file explorer. does anyone know the solution to this?