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Matt Fellows
Matt Fellows

Reputation: 6532

Native File Browser Widget in SWT

I'm looking to implement a file system browser as part of a project which abstracts a remote file system, through a database of permissions. It should ideally appear as a native file system (visually) so I'm making use of SWT. I have APIs to access the list of files and folders, but I have no access to native icons for things like folders and known file types as I understand it.

I was wondering if anyone knows of such a widget already that I can either modify or make use of? If not does anyone have any suggestions for making a widget that will look native on all SWT supported platforms?

Just to be clear - I'm not looking for FileDialog, it needs to be a fully interactive widget, that I can just include in an SWT Display. i.e. it needs to not be modal...

EDIT

A little clarification for why FileDialog is not what I'm looking for:

I looking to implement an Explorer/Finder style interface to a virtual file system. I don't want a Modal Dialog that pops up and only has the capability to choose a file. It will need to support dragging and dropping of files (Or at least allow me to implement this), and the standard native looking functions you'd expect from a file system.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1914

Answers (1)

Baz
Baz

Reputation: 36904

As far as I know, there is no "native file browser" that supports all the features you need. The only similar things in SWT are FileDialog and DirectoryDialog.

There are some code examples that create a file browser with a couple of features you need, however, they obviously won't look like the native file browser. Here is an example I found:

Looks like this:

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Upvotes: 1

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