electron/docs/api/dialog.md

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:

var win = ...;  // window in which to show the dialog
var dialog = require('dialog');
console.log(dialog.showOpenDialog({ properties: [ 'openFile', 'openDirectory', 'multiSelections' ]}));

Note for OS X: If you want to present dialogs as sheets, the only thing you have to do is to provide a BrowserWindow reference in the browserWindow parameter.

dialog.showOpenDialog([browserWindow], [options], [callback])

• browserWindow BrowserWindow
• options Object
  • title String
  • defaultPath String
  • filters Array
  • 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.

The filters specifies an array of file types that can be displayed or selected, an example is:

{
  filters: [
    { name: 'Images', extensions: ['jpg', 'png', 'gif'] },
    { name: 'Movies', extensions: ['mkv', 'avi', 'mp4'] },
    { name: 'Custom File Type', extensions: ['as'] },
  ],
}

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
  • filters Array
• callback Function

On success, returns the path of file chosen by the user, otherwise returns undefined.

The filters specifies an array of file types that can be displayed, see dialog.showOpenDialog for an example.

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)

dialog.showErrorBox(title, content)

Runs a modal dialog that shows an error message.

This API can be called safely before the ready event of app module emits, it is usually used to report errors in early stage of startup.