[Closed] Select multiple folders in maxscript?
Say I have a folder A.
Inside of that folder I have a lot of project folders.
Inside of those folders I have folders with max files.
Now I would like to select some, but not all of the folders inside of A.
GetSavePath() is not an option as it only allows me to select 1 folder.
GetOpenFilename() is not an option as it only allows for files to be selected.
I had the same issue while ago. Solved it using this – https://github.com/Willy-Kimura/BetterFolderBrowser
(
global rol_
try(destroyDialog rol_)catch()
rollout rol_ ""
(
local dllpath = @"C:\BetterFolderBrowser.dll"
local assembly = dotNetClass "System.Reflection.Assembly"
button btn_getFolders "Get Folders"
on btn_getFolders pressed do
(
dnOFD = assembly.loadfrom dllpath
bfbd = dotnetObject "WK.Libraries.BetterFolderBrowserNS.Helpers.BetterFolderBrowserDialog"
bfbd.AllowMultiselect = true
result = bfbd.showDialog()
print bfbd.FileNames
)
)
createdialog rol_
)
Until a couple of years ago, I would have done this using System.Windows.Forms OPenFileDialog…
Today I’m trying to find a Qt solution… something like this:
ps2 = python.import "PySide2"
widgets = ps2.QtWidgets
core = ps2.QtCore
maxwnd = widgets.QWidget.find (windows.getMAXHWND())
(
file_dialog = widgets.QFileDialog maxwnd
file_dialog.setFileMode file_dialog.DirectoryOnly
file_dialog.setOption file_dialog.DontUseNativeDialog true
file_dialog.setWindowFlag core.Qt.WindowContextHelpButtonHint false
file_dialog.setWindowFlag core.Qt.WindowMinimizeButtonHint true
file_dialog.setWindowFlag core.Qt.WindowMaximizeButtonHint true
file_listview = file_dialog.findChild widgets.QListView
if file_listview != undefined do
(
file_listview.setSelectionMode widgets.QAbstractItemView.MultiSelection
)
file_treeview = file_dialog.findChild widgets.QTreeView
if file_treeview != undefined do
(
file_treeview.setSelectionMode widgets.QAbstractItemView.MultiSelection
)
if (file_dialog.exec()) do
(
folders = file_dialog.selectedFiles() as array
)
)
but I probably like this solution more than the others, since multiple directory selection is not a common and typical UI solution, so it requires a “deliberately” custom implementation.
Another “solution” – allow the users to drag and drop the selected folders(and files) onto your UI(most probably the list in which you will show the selected folders).
Edit: not a solution at all. I had to press [Reply] button 40 times.