Get user to input path, with tab completion

[Palli]

Maybe helpful for you there (under 90 lines, but only for Windows? Or at least for PowerShell, that is now available elsewhere, at least Linux too):

`file.choose()` in `Julia`?

I wrote this monstrosity a few years ago for my use on Windows. It shells out to PowerShell to create a file dialog then parses the results. Needed a tweak to get the uigetfile function working again (I’m using PS7 compared to PS5 when I wrote it) the others would probably need tweaks too. Obviously ugly and could be done better (I’m a much better Julia programmer now) but does get the job done (on Windows). I wonder how hard it’d be to whip up a package, atleast for a specific OS. I haven’t us…

[For you it may help, but I would like all code to be cross-platform, and if you or Julia users distributing code, to not do Windows-only code…]

@user664303

I was using NativeFileDialog, but it pulls in so many dependencies I’d like to avoid it.

I’m confused, it seems to have very few, the main one “A tiny, neat C library” GitHub - mlabbe/nativefiledialog: A tiny, neat C library that portably invokes native file open and save dialogs.