Simple File Browser [Open Source]

Good question. I don't know if my plugin supports browsing files on a network, I haven't tried it. Does the path

\\design\classroom\examples

work when you type it into the path field manually?

 

nop... it only works when the files are stored in either the same PC (windows build) or the Android device... I haven't been able to find out what the path should be for a shared folder.

I managed to add the shared folder to an app called ES File Explorer and I can browse the files there, but unfortunately the other computer isn't showing in your browser app... it only lists the local devices or the external SD card on my Android, but it doesn't show any Network shares to connect to nor can I enter the path manually to it.

Thanks for any Ideas... I have been trying to get the path to work on Android for over a week now and Im a bit bedazzeled by the matter.

is there any way we could view network shares or perhaps map a drive in android a similar way it is done in windows?

thanks again and excellent work with the app its very useful.

 

If Directory.GetFiles supports network shares, then it should be possible to list files in a network share. If manually entering the path of the network folder doesn't work, then it doesn't seem to be possible. In this case, I'm not sure how to access the network folder.

 

thanks... ill keep investigating then... thanks again for your feedback.

 

You should be able to use the quicklink to do it. You'll need to specify the drive, and don't have the image name in the link.
so : "\\design\classroom\examples\design.jpg"
should be: "drive:\\design\classroom\examples\"
=> FileBrowser.AddQuickLink("Examples", "Y:\\design\classroom\examples", null);

 

Hi, Thanks a lot, for this package, is very useful. I have a doubt. I have the filebrowser.result, that i can print in console, but i would like to use this like a text in a inputfield in canvas, to reproduce a music, that i select with your asset. How can i convert filebrowser.result to string? thanks

 

It is already a string. You can simply use

textObject.text = FileBrowser.Result;

 

Thanks for the feedback, excellent idea!. The only problem is that im trying to access the shared folder from an Android device and the shared folder hasn't been mapped to any drive yet... im not sure how to map it to a drive in an android device... should I use es File Explorer for that beforehand? is the Y: drive supposed to have the shared folder mapped onto it outside the app?

I tried do add the quickLink refference in the file browser, but it doesn't seem to be working unfortunately.

 

Does this asset support macOS?
Thank you!

 

It should, yes.

 

I want a path as string to the selected file, but OnSuccess always false when I selected the file. How can I fix this problem? Please help me.

 

Can I see your code?

 

We have a multi display application, how can I make the file browser appear on a specific display?

 

File browser is basically a regular UI canvas. You can make FileBrowser.Instance public and then use that variable to access the canvas of the file browser and anchor it to the second display (I don't know how it is achieved, I have a single monitor XD).

 

I added this to my FileBrowser.cs

Code (CSharp):

1.         public static FileBrowser GetInstance()
2.         {
3.             return m_instance;
4.         }
5.  

and then this code to get the targetDisplay and centre the FileBrowser - seems to work for me.

Code (CSharp):

1.            
2. FileBrowser.ShowLoadDialog(OnLoadTRRSuccess, OnLoadTRRCancel, false, Path.Combine(Application.streamingAssetsPath.Replace(" / ", "\\"), "Recordings"),
3.                 "Load TRR file", "Load");
4.  
5.             Canvas fbCanvas = FileBrowser.GetInstance().gameObject.GetComponent<Canvas>();
6.             if (fbCanvas != null)
7.             {
8.                 fbCanvas.targetDisplay = viewerMain.MainCamera.targetDisplay;
9.                 RectTransform rectTransform = fbCanvas.GetComponent<RectTransform>();
10.  
11.                 rectTransform.anchoredPosition = new Vector2(Display.displays[viewerMain.MainCamera.targetDisplay].renderingWidth / 2, Display.displays[viewerMain.MainCamera.targetDisplay].renderingHeight / 2);
12.             }
13.  

Thanks.

 

Hi, I have a problem on Android, with SimpleFileBrowser.jar which does not seem to be found.
It used to work great on Unity 2018, but since I had to upgrade to Unity 2019 this problem appeared.
I tried to update SimpleFileBrowser to the last version, but it didn't help.
Any idea of what could cause this ?

Thanks in advance, cheers from France !

 

Adding the following line to ProGuard filters should resolve the issue:

-keep class com.yasirkula.unity.* { *; }

 

It worked, thank you so much !
Your plugin is extremely usefull, congratulations and thanks again !

 

Hi,
Great plugin, it realy works well for us.
We want to add Keyboard support, so it'll be possible to navigate using arrow keys.
Can you point me to the best place in the code to implement such support?

Thanks

 

Changing the base class of ListItem to UnityEngine.UI.Selectable makes keyboard navigation somewhat possible. Then, implementing the UnityEngine.EventSystems.ISubmitHandler interface as following makes the submit (Enter) button work:

Code (CSharp):

1. public void OnSubmit( UnityEngine.EventSystems.BaseEventData ev )
2. {
3.     UnityEngine.EventSystems.IPointerClickHandler clickHandler = GetComponent<UnityEngine.EventSystems.IPointerClickHandler>();
4.     if( clickHandler != null )
5.         clickHandler.OnPointerClick( null );
6. }

However, as the file browser uses a recycled list view, 5 items (GameObjects) may be used to show 500 files in a directory. You'd have to scroll the Files scroll view manually by code when the highlighted file is almost at the upper or lower bound of the scroll view.

 

Do you plan on adding support for UWP? would love to get something like this working in the Windows VR headset.

 

I'm not planning to add UWP support at the moment but thank you for the suggestion. For now, you may want to take a look at this asset: https://forum.unity.com/threads/file-browser-native-file-browser-for-standalone.510403/

 

Sorry, I do not have much experience in programming. I'm trying to create a dialog box after the user clicks a button. This is the DownloadFile () method:

SimpleFileBrowser.FileBrowser.ShowLoadDialog((path) => { Debug.Log(path); }, null,
false, null, "Select File", "Select ");

I do not understand how I can change the default path directory (Documents to C:\\) and How can l set the default filter ".xml".

This code does not work:

SimpleFileBrowser.FileBrowser.ShowLoadDialog((path) => { Debug.Log(path); }, null,
false, null, "Select File", "Select ");
FileBrowser.SetDefaultFilter(".xml");
FileBrowser.AddQuickLink("Users", "C:\\Users", null);

 

Try this:

Code (CSharp):

1. string pathC = Path.GetPathRoot( Environment.GetFolderPath( Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments ) );
2. FileBrowser.SetFilters( false, ".xml" );
3. FileBrowser.SetDefaultFilter( ".xml" );
4. FileBrowser.ShowLoadDialog( ( path ) => { Debug.Log( path ); }, null, false, pathC, "Select File", "Select " );

 

Many thanks!

 

I have one more question: Is it possible to display the standard Windows folders in the dialog box on user's native language? For example, "the documents or desktop" folder on the attached to my post screen:


And is it possible to translate into the native language other interface elements of the dialog box?

 

Localization is definitely one of the weakest points of this asset. You'll have to translate those texts manually. This is easy for static texts like "Show hidden files" or "Search..." but for the others, you'll have to modify FileBrowser.cs.

The documents and desktop quick links are defined inside the SimpleFileBrowserCanvas prefab's "Quick Links" property. To localize them, you'd need to remove them from "Quick Links" and call

FileBrowser.AddQuickLink

from your own script to add them to the file browser with a localized string.

 

Hello, how can I select an image for my object? Please I need help

 

If you are targeting Android and/or iOS, consider using NativeGallery instead: https://forum.unity.com/threads/native-gallery-for-android-ios-open-source.519619/

To use the file browser, you can check out the example code: https://github.com/yasirkula/UnitySimpleFileBrowser#example-code

 

Hello!
I'm trying to make a PNG exporter, but i can't find a way on how to access the filename bar string to name the file that user wanted to export.

Thanks

 

Inside the OnSuccess callback, you can call

System.IO.Path.GetFileName(path)

. If you are using the coroutine approach, you can call

System.IO.Path.GetFileName(FileBrowser.Result)

.

 

Hey
really great work
I am a beginner so question could be silly
i wanna use this plugin for browsing text file in an android application
and text file will be in my internal or external i don't care for the location on phone
how can i do it?
i use the code you put on GitHub but i can't complete on it

 

How about this:

Code (CSharp):

1. SimpleFileBrowser.FileBrowser.SetFilters( false, ".txt" );
2. SimpleFileBrowser.FileBrowser.ShowLoadDialog( (path) =>
3.     {
4.         Debug.Log( "Selected file path: " + path );
5.     }, () =>
6.     {
7.         Debug.Log( "Canceled" );
8.     }, false, null, "Select a text file", "Select" );

 

Yeah Thnx
you are a life saver

 

I already download this asset and it very good.but i dont know how to get name from result load.please help me

 

The OnSuccess callback (first parameter of the ShowSaveDialog and ShowLoadDialog functions) takes a string parameter. It holds the absolute path of the selected file/folder. If you want to get the filename from it, you can use the System.IO.Path.GetFileName(path) function. The example code might help you understand the callback better: https://github.com/yasirkula/UnitySimpleFileBrowser/#example-code

 

Thanks.it worked

 

hello, I want a selected song to be transferred to the audio source component

can you give an example, please

 

Please check out this link. I basically googled "unity load audio clip from file"

 

for this Windows I want for android

 

Please don't get me wrong but this is outside the scope of SimpleFileBrowser; it is just responsible from selecting a file and returning its path. It is then up to you to process that file. I don't know how to load an audio file at runtime either, so you should search the topic yourself.

 

Ok thanks

 

Great stuff! Thank you so much! One question: is it possible, after selecting a file, to get the path without it? I want it to remember the last folder that was used and make it the default one. Not sure how to get the path to folder without the filename.

 

You can get the directory of a path via

System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(path)

. File browser remembers the last location and continues from there if you don't provide an initialPath parameter while showing the dialog. However, the path doesn't persist between app sessions, so when you close the app, the last path will not be remembered. You can use PlayerPrefs to save/load the last path yourself and pass it to the ShowSaveDialog/ShowLoadDialog functions, if you want.

 

Oh, yeah, didn't notice that it saves by default. Thanks! Another question then: can I make it focus on a file that was loaded last? I have lots of files in a folder, images, I'm loading them one at a time, what I want is for the browser, when I open it, to scroll down to the last file opened so that I don't have to. Is it possible?

 

Well, surely it can be achieved with some modifications to FileBrowser.cs. You'd have to store the name of the previously selected file in a variable and focus on that file in RefreshFiles.

 

Hi, great job with the file browser! I'm just having one problem, I can't type into any of the input fields in the browser window, any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm using Unity 2018.1.5f1, and this is how I open the browser:

FileBrowser.SetFilters(false, new FileBrowser.Filter("OBJ files", ".obj"));
FileBrowser.ShowSaveDialog((path) => {
StartCoroutine(DownloadOSMFile(OSMqueryURL, osmfilename, path));
},
() => { Debug.Log("Canceled"); },
false, null, "Save obj file", "Select");

 

Please make sure that there is an active EventSystem object in the scene. If there is one, try deactivating and then reactivating it. Also, are there any error messages?

 

Reactivating EventSystem had no effect, and there are no error messages either. I just tried adding a new Input Field on the canvas and that doesn't let me type into it either, so the problem is definitely on my side. I need to figure this out myself, sorry for the trouble and thanks for trying to help.

Edit: The issue was that I had a

EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject(null);

in one of my Update functions.

 

How can i filter all file with extenxion file in all disc like .png in my disc native ? Thank Bro