Or you could take a look the native function "SHBrowseForFolder" (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762115.aspx) if you look for a Windows native alternative. Cheers, Andreas Steven Kelly schrieb:

VW has:

Dialog requestDirectoryName: 'Choose a Directory:'

which explicitly selects a directory (including empty ones) rather than a file.

*From:*Esug-list [mailto:esug-list-bounces@lists.esug.org] *On Behalf Of *Ulli Wenk *Sent:* Thursday, February 12, 2015 1:30 PM *To:* ESUG Mailing list *Subject:* [Esug-list] how to pick an existing (empty) directory name (mapped in Windows to a drive letter)?

Hello,

how I can use a native FolderDialog/DirectoryRequest for a directory which may be empty (we need it for selecting a subprocess-working-directory chosen by our users)?

The VW FileDialog and Win32FileDialog can only be used for not empty directories (selecting an arbitrary file and getting its directory path). The Aragon.Widget Dialog>requestDirectory let me select a directory but does not show the drive letters of the (Windows-) mapped drives. Thus, for our users (hospital nurses), it is not so easy to find a known directory. Has anybody a solution?

Regards, Ulli

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