linecode/sfd

A small C library for opening a file dialog

Simple File Dialog

A small C library for opening a file dialog on Windows and Linux.

Usage

sfd.c and sfd.h should be dropped into an existing project and compiled along with it — on Windows comdlg32 should be linked.

The library provides a function for open dialogs and one for save dialogs:

sfd_Options opt = {
  .title        = "Open Image File",
  .filter_name  = "Image File",
  .filter       = "*.png|*.jpg",
};

const char *filename = sfd_open_dialog(&opt);

if (filename) {
  printf("Got file: '%s'\n", filename);
} else {
  printf("Open canceled\n");
}

Both functions accept a sfd_Options struct pointer with settings for the file dialog — All fields of the sfd_Options struct are optional.

Field	Description
.title	Title for the file dialog window
.path	Default directory
.filter_name	Name used to describe the file filter
.filter	File filters separated by |

If the file dialog is canceled or an error occurs NULL is returned. sfd_get_error() will return an error string in the case of an error.

License

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.