ImGui > call system File Dialog?

Hi Community!

I’d like to use a Load Image button in ImGui to call the system’s native File Dialog, so that a user of a standalone .exe can choose an image file from the hard drive. When I right-click a file path node inside vvvv, the system window is labeled “Select File”

I tried every imaginable keyword (select/file/system/open/load/path/dialog/…) in the nodes search, looked here in the Forum and also in the (very good) how-to section of gamma’s native help browser, but couldn’t find a solution, though it seems to be possible.

Any idea where to start?
Thanks a lot!

Yo!

There’s a help patch called File Dialogs in the help browser, maybe that’s what you’re looking for?

Sweet! That’s just it.

But… where do i find the FileDialog node? Is it from an external library, like the skia renderer? Doesn’t seem so. Still, i can only find it in the help patch.

Ok, I can copy/paste it for now, but it would be nice to have it in the doubleclick search by default.

You have to reference VL.CoreLib.Windows to get these nodes.

You made my day :-)

@sebescudie actually you made my day too)

I made these nodes so long ago that I didn’t even check if those are the default:

But the real missing node is the folder opening node

Dialogs.vl (41.7 KB)