WT save file dialog window?

Question

Hello fellow WT users. I have a problem with enabling the user the ability to choose a save location for some data in my application. I have noticed that WT has an absence of an easy to use save/open file dialog boxes or widgets for the purposes of browsing the hard drive of a machine for a save location or a file to load. I would imagine both of such widgets return the path of said location or file to load, but alas I have not found any. I have also looked at Wt::WFileUpload Class but had a hard time understanding how exactly to use it, and after googling around some examples determined it is probably not what I am looking for.

Why not use windows OpenFileDialog? Well, in this project I have WT overlayed over a full screen application as a UI, if any other windows open the application would minimize(which is bad). Which is why I'm looking to browse the hard drive in just WT.

After thinking about this for a while, I figured why not just write my own file browser? So after a bit of digging I came across the MVC Tree Views. Those look pretty close to Windows Open File Dialog, except that I would need to write my own code for building and displaying the trees, browsing the hard drive with boost, then handling all the saving and loading myself.

Which I am not apposed to, it just seemed reasonable to check with the community before I jump the gun and write a lot of code that I potentially might not need to. It seems odd that WT does not have anything to support hard drive browsing, which brings me here.

Does anyone know anything about a Widget, or a clever combination of Widgets, or another WT method to enable the user to browse the hard drive of the machine in just WT?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

The filetreetable example does more or less what you ask.