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Oren Sarid
Oren Sarid

Reputation: 153

Open the OS default file explorer from eclipse plugin?

I am writing an eclipse plugin, and one of the features I need is to open the OS native file explorer on a given folder. I couldn't find a solution with various searches...

Basically I have an IPath (or string) with a folder name. I need to open explorer.exe on Windows and whatever there is on Linux for that folder/directory.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks, Oren

Upvotes: 1

Views: 408

Answers (1)

Baz
Baz

Reputation: 36894

You can use the Program class of SWT. The launch(String) method in particular will do what you want:

Launches the operating system executable associated with the file or URL (http:// or https://). If the file is an executable then the executable is launched. Note that a Display must already exist to guarantee that this method returns an appropriate result.

This will do:

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    DirectoryDialog dialog = new DirectoryDialog(new Shell());

    String path = dialog.open();

    if(path != null)
    {
        Program.launch(path);
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

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