Different Directory Picker on Windows

[PeterNjeim]

Hello, I (as well as most others) seriously dislike the directory chooser/picker that was chosen for the Windows implementation of this plugin. I feel completely paralyzed using it. I always think of old programs when I see this kind of directory picker. Normally, a directory chooser should look exactly the same as a file chooser, just that the files aren't visible. This is how it's done in virtually every program I've ever used. Please consider updating to the newer Vista+ folder selector using one of the methods listed in the "edit" section of the top answer from this q&a: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1922204/open-directory-dialog.

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[PeterNjeim]

Well, I suppose 9 days is close enough to 14 for your bot there lol

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[philenius]

@PeterNjeim I do understand your request. This

looks much better than that:

Thank you for providing the link to StackOverflow. Unfortunately, we cannot reference .NET libraries (which must be pre-installed on Windows). The Win32 API is special in that these DLLs (comdlg32.dll, shell32.dll, etc.) seem to be present on every Windows installation.

Until now I couldn't figure out which API provides the modern dialog. Currently, we're using SHBrowseForFolderW from Win32 API which opens this old-fashioned dialog. In the remarks it says:

For Windows Vista or later, it is recommended that you use IFileDialog with the FOS_PICKFOLDERS option rather than the SHBrowseForFolder function.

Maybe the solution is to switch to IFileDialog. We'll just have to figure out how to use the IFileDialog API.

[PeterNjeim]

I think that's the correct next step

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[b34st80y]

The pub.dev entry ( https://pub.dev/packages/file_picker ) even shows an example of the modern windows file picker:

I thought maybe I was doing something wrong when I got the one from windows Vista. :p

[PeterNjeim]

That's for file selection, not folder selection. And the Vista one is the new one, not the old one. I understand your comment, but since it doesn't really move the issue forward, there was really no point in posting it lol.

[philenius]

@PeterNjeim sorry for letting you wait so long. I have already found a working implementation of the modern folder picker dialog, but I have another open pull request which should be merged first. However, miguelruivo seems to be very busy as he hasn't even reacted on my latest pull request #953 within 13 days and I don't have permission to merge myself. Please be patient.

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[philenius]

@PeterNjeim: the modern directory picker dialog is now available on pub.dev with file_picker version 4.5.0