System.Windows.Forms

Hello,

I ran into a problem earlier trying to use System.Linq in my unity project. I realized that this is because Unity uses .NET 2.0, and so I was not allowed to use that DLL. However, I am trying to use System.Windows.Forms now, and I get this message inside Unity:

"error CS0234: The type or namespace name `Windows' does not exist in the namespace `System'. Are you missing an assembly reference?"

This is the same message I got with System.Linq, but System.Windows is .NET 2.0, and is even included in the mono directory in the Unity folder. What do I need to do to get it to recognize this library? Am I not allowed to use it? I am trying to get a Save File Dialog box to open for the user to save their settings into an INI file.

 

Well, don't worry about it. I found this resource that helped me out:

http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=FileBrowser

Although it didn't work right out of the box, I was able to modify it to work. The trouble is that a directory can also be compressed so the line "if (fileSelection.Attributes == FileAttributes.Directory)" doesn't work right since it will return Directory, Compressed instead of just directory. I don't actually know what compressed means so I checked for both cases....Directory is 2048 and Directory, Compressed is 2064, so it would be Attributes 100000010000 I believe....(as you can see I'm just thinking of using the bit operator now ).

 

Bad link is bad.

 

Well, the wiki is dead for quite some time now. However we have the "wayback machine" (aka archive.org). Though the script is an ancient script that uses the old IMGUI system. It still works, but it's a really rudimentary file browser.