require('electron') - issues?

[toovy]

Hi felix,

I played around with this project and really appreciate it. Nevertheless I tried to open a dialog to let the user pick a file. Looking at the electron API this should be pretty straightforward.

https://github.com/atom/electron/blob/master/docs/api/dialog.md

When I call require('electron') there is no dialog property. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks a lot, BR, toovy

[felixrieseberg]

This is probably easy - if you're trying to call dialog from anywhere in Ember, you're no longer in the main process (and need to use remote). Simple example:

import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Controller.extend({
    init: function () {
        var dialog = require('electron').remote.dialog;
        dialog.showErrorBox('Error', 'Hi!');
    }
});

I'm closing this in the meantime, but feel free to reopen if I misunderstood the situation 🐰

[toovy]

Works fine, thanks!

dialog = require('electron').remote.dialog
dir = dialog.showOpenDialog properties: [ 'openDirectory' ]

[BennyAlex]

@toovy @felixrieseberg
when I am using const {dialog} = require('electron').remote; OR const dialog = require('electron').remote.dialog; I get the following error:

File: electron-mp3-wizard/controllers/renamer.js
The Broccoli Plugin: [broccoli-persistent-filter:Babel > [Babel: electron-mp3-wizard]: Babel: electron-mp3-wizard] failed with:

TypeError: my-app/controllers/renamer.js: Property object of MemberExpression expected node to be of a type ["Expression"] but instead got null

[seansellek]

I am also seeing the issue BennyAlex mentioned