# dialog The `dialog` module provides APIs to show native system dialogs, so web applications can get the same user experience with native applications. An example of showing a dialog to select multiple files and directories: ```javascript var win = ...; // window in which to show the dialog var dialog = require('dialog'); console.log(dialog.showOpenDialog({ properties: [ 'openFile', 'openDirectory', 'multiSelections' ]})); ``` ## dialog.showOpenDialog([browserWindow], options, [callback]) * `browserWindow` BrowserWindow * `options` Object * `title` String * `defaultPath` String * `properties` Array - Contains which features the dialog should use, can contain `openFile`, `openDirectory`, `multiSelections` and `createDirectory` * `callback` Function On success, returns an array of file paths chosen by the user, otherwise returns `undefined`. If a `callback` is passed, the API call would be asynchronous and the result would be passed via `callback(filenames)` **Note:** On Windows and Linux, an open dialog could not be both file selector and directory selector at the same time, so if you set `properties` to `['openFile', 'openDirectory']` on these platforms, a directory selector would be showed. ## dialog.showSaveDialog([browserWindow], options, [callback]) * `browserWindow` BrowserWindow * `options` Object * `title` String * `defaultPath` String * `callback` Function On success, returns the path of file chosen by the user, otherwise returns `undefined`. If a `callback` is passed, the API call would be asynchronous and the result would be passed via `callback(filename)` ## dialog.showMessageBox([browserWindow], options, [callback]) * `browserWindow` BrowserWindow * `options` Object * `type` String - Can be `"none"`, `"info"` or `"warning"` * `buttons` Array - Array of texts for buttons * `title` String - Title of the message box, some platforms will not show it * `message` String - Content of the message box * `detail` String - Extra information of the message * `callback` Function Shows a message box, it will block until the message box is closed. It returns the index of the clicked button. If a `callback` is passed, the API call would be asynchronous and the result would be passed via `callback(response)`