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miguelpruivo
How to pick files or directory?
I know we can use pickFiles() to open file picker and getDirectoryPath() to choose a directory but my use case allows user to select files or directory or both at the same time. How can I achieve this with this plugin?
For example, I also implemented drag and drop files support using desktop_drop package which supports both files and directory dropping. So when I drop things, it gives me List<XFile> where can contain directories if I have selected any. I can't do this with this plugin. A lot of native apps does this.
I have tested this on MacOS. pickFiles() doesn't allow selecting directories too. Only files.
I'd like to allow both at the same time. Can you please help?
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@miguelpruivo I have the same use-case as OP and can confirm that exactly what they described happens when using macOS (Monterey 12.6).
With pickFiles, when highlighting a directory and clicking Choose, the directory is simply opened as if I had double-clicked it, rather than being returned.
With getDirectoryPath, all files are grayed out and thus cannot be selected. Also, it is not possible to select multiple folders at once.
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This was immediately the first thing i realized was missing. Need a way to select a mixture of multiple files and folders in the same picker window. The native picker on macOS has support for this at least.
Without this feature, opening av picker becomes a much worse experience, compared to drag and drop. But some people are not tech savvy enough to perform a drop and drop, especially not on a small laptop where cmd+tab needs to be involved at the same time when dragging.
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