Creating a file browser in Xcode.

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Hi guys. I am a new Mac user. I'm trying to learn how to program in this great OS, with this language totally new for me. I already know the C language, but I've never used some object oriented language, then excuse me if I'll say something stupid...
I'm trying to create a simple file browser to select a file in a folder on my system. I would use a Browser object, but I don't know how to display its content. Reading Apple's documentation I understood that I have to fill my NSBrowser object with an NSBrowserCell object and so on... But I don't really know how to do this!
I hope you can help me...

Posted 11-Oct-14 9:26am

militandri

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Leo Chapiro · Answer 1 · 2014-10-11T09:44:00

Take a look at the NSOpenPanel class, I think that is a good starting point:

Objective-C

// Create the File Open Dialog class.
NSOpenPanel* openDlg = [NSOpenPanel openPanel];

// Enable the selection of files in the dialog.
[openDlg setCanChooseFiles:YES];

// Multiple files not allowed
[openDlg setAllowsMultipleSelection:NO];

// Can't select a directory
[openDlg setCanChooseDirectories:NO];

// Display the dialog. If the OK button was pressed,
// process the files.
if ( [openDlg runModalForDirectory:nil file:nil] == NSOKButton )
{
   ....