# Makie Text Box/File Selection GUI

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-text-box-file-selection-gui/48472>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** makie\
**Created:** [October 16, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-text-box-file-selection-gui/48472 "2020-10-16T02:13:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Allan\_Baker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/allan_baker/32/42645_2.png) [@Allan\_Baker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Allan_Baker)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-text-box-file-selection-gui/48472/1 "2020-10-16T02:13:09Z")

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I have a Makie plot with interactive slider bars. Wondering what’s the best way to advance the components that can be added to this graphic. How do I make a Dial for example instead of a linear slide?

But that’s not even the most important thing, how do I accept text inputs or open up modal dialog boxes or probably most useful, how do I graphically select file and pathnames?

I can’t seem to find anything just googling around… thoughts on where I should look?

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**Author:** ![Iulian.Cioarca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/iulian.cioarca/32/30166_2.png) [@Iulian.Cioarca](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Iulian.Cioarca)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 7:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-text-box-file-selection-gui/48472/2 "2020-10-16T07:28:47Z")

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I’m using [Makie](http://juliaplots.org/MakieReferenceImages/gallery/index.html) for plotting and [Interact](https://juliagizmos.github.io/Interact.jl/latest/) for widgets(dropdowns, buttons and checkboxes) in Jupyter notebook. The only Interact widget not working in Jupyter is the filepicker (it works very well in Atom though).

 ![Makie_Jupyter_zoom](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/5/d/5dd21a08c994643668a9b7da7255cef9118ecc67.png)

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**Author:** ![barche](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/barche/32/79_2.png) [@barche](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/barche)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 8:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-text-box-file-selection-gui/48472/3 "2020-10-16T08:21:07Z")

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If you don’t mind the extra dependency, you can easily combine Makie with QML, see [https://github.com/barche/juliacon2020-qml/blob/master/05-makie.jl](https://github.com/barche/juliacon2020-qml/blob/master/05-makie.jl) for my JuliaCon example, demo here:

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/0/2/02cc428dd7e703ba1e03620e586c64cfc4213c37.jpeg "JuliaCon 2020 | Easy and fast desktop GUIs with QML | Bart Janssens") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AddbHe05yRg&t=386)