NativeDialogs

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Native Dialogs

Use native dialogs with same code on Windows,Mac OSX and Linux(GTK3 required).

Features:

• C++11 support and required
• Easy to use
• Native user interface
• Native message dialog
• Native file chooser dialog
• Native color picker dialog

Integrate to your project

• Add all files under src to your project
• inclue NativeDialog.h file to your code
• Remove code under osx if it's not a OSX application
• Remove code under win if it's not a Windows application

Usage:

Message Dialog

• Show native notice dialog with one line

MessageDialog("Notice","Hello World!",{"Close"}).show();

Platform	Screenshot
Windows
GTK
OS X

• Deal events as you like

MessageDialog mdlg("Notice","Do you want to quit?",{"Yes","No"});
mdlg.setDecideHandler([](const Dialog& dlg){
    auto mdlg = dynamic_cast<const MessageDialog&>(dlg);
    if( mdlg.responseButtonTitle() == "Yes" ){
        // He want to quit
    }
    else if(mdlg.responseButtonIndex() == 1) {
        // He is not sure to quit
    }
})
.show();

Platform	Screenshot
Windows
GTK
OS X

File Chooser Dialog

• File selection
• Directory selection
• Multiselection
• Save file mode
• Filters are easy to set

FileDialog fdlg("Open some text files",
                FileDialog::SELECT_FILE|FileDialog::MULTI_SELECT);
fdlg.setDefaultPath("..")
    .addFilter("Text Files","txt")
    .addFilter("Code files","c;cpp;h;hpp")
    .addFilter("All files","*")
    //.setSaveMode(true) // Set save mode
    .setDecideHandler([](const Dialog& dlg){
        auto fdlg = dynamic_cast<const FileDialog&>(dlg);
        const std::vector<std::string>& fileList = fdlg.selectedPathes();
        // All pathes are in absolute format
      })
    .setCancelHandler( [](const Dialog& dlg){
        // Nothing selected as it was canceled
      }
    )
    .show();

Platform	Screenshot
Windows
GTK
OS X

Color Picker Dialog

No more thing but you want

ColorPickerDialog cdlg("Pick a color you like");
cdlg.setColor({1,0,1,1}) // Set default selected color
.setDecideHandler( [](const Dialog& dlg){
    auto colorDlg = dynamic_cast<const ColorPickerDialog&>(dlg);
    auto color = colorDlg.color();
    // Get color value with color.r,color.g,color.b and color.a
  })
.show();

Platform	Screenshot
Windows
GTK
OS X

More about usage : test.cc

Notice for platform specifications

• Color Picker Dialog won't pause your thread on Mac OSX
• File Dialogs support set host window with a NSWindow* value by setHostWindow method on Mac OSX
• Filters of File Dialog are invisible but it works on Mac OSX
• Select Multi-Directory is not allowed on Windows and GTK
• Windows has a diffrent UI for directory selection like this

Here is a demo that use a glfw window as host window for Mac OSX : test.osx.mm

TODO:

• Native font select dialog

LICENSE

Under MIT LICENSE .