how to add a file select dialogue box to a console based app
hello! i know that you cant actually do what i said i wanted to do in the title of this post, but, i was wondering if there was some way to easily get from my console based code to something that would allow me to include a file select dialogue box
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The best and most native console way of doing this would be to display the file selection using text in the console
Otherwise... I believe you'd have to reference one of the available UI framework's libraries to access a file selection dialog
But even so, that would be like creating a Frankenstein's monster.
yeah thats what i though
thought*
ive heard of the possibility of allowing just dropping a file to select it? is that possible?
why not just provide by command line args?
at least on Windows, the path to a dragged in file will be pasted in when you drop it on the console
so just do a
Console.ReadLine()If you want to write such an app, you should evaluate if Terminal.Gui is the option, https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui
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wow this looks really cool
im definitely going to look into using this
Its very good, but your code will end up being very similar to a full GUI app