Feature to attach a file when sending a message to LLM.

[chrisbarrera]

Describe your changes

This pull request introduce a new feature as a (hopefully ready for integration) proof of concept: a paperclip icon on the textinput field right that opens a file dialog to select a text file. This file will be sent to the LLM along with the message entered into the textinput field.

Issue ticket number and link

#2567

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Summary:

Added a feature to attach a text file when sending a message to the LLM, including UI changes in ChatView.qml and enabling QML file reading in main.cpp.

Key points:

• Added icons/paperclip.svg to gpt4all-chat/CMakeLists.txt.
• Enabled QML file reading in main.cpp by setting QML_XHR_ALLOW_FILE_READ.
• Updated ChatView.qml to include a FileDialog for selecting text files and a MyToolButton for attaching files.
• Modified ChatView.qml to append file contents to the message text before sending to the LLM.

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[chrisbarrera]

Screen capture showing interaction: muted text of the filename following the "You" in the conversation area, and a paperclip icon on the right side of the textinput field.

[manyoso]

Hi @chrisbarrera! This is excellent. I have another version of this feature in a private branch that expands on this a bit. I'm going to keep this PR as a draft and merge the two if that is ok? Thanks for doing this!

[chrisbarrera]

Hey @manyoso thanks for the feedback. I am just glad either way that its on the board and y'all will add this as a feature. Feel free to use as little or as much of my implementation as makes sense compared to yours.

[StefanEgle]

Hey! Today I also wondered why there is no paperclip icon and found this chat. When will it released?

[manyoso]

Update: this feature is still planned but taking some back seat to the tooling work and RAG improvements. The tooling work in turn is taking a back seat to a prerequisite change to our backend that is going to unlock a lot of other stuff. That should be coming in shortly.

[manyoso]

We now have first instance of this working with excel files and issue opened to add more.