pymel.core.system.fileDialog¶

fileDialog(*args, **kwargs)¶

Displays a file picking window, and returns the name of the file that the user picked. If the user picked no file, then an empty string is returned.

Flags:

Long name (short name)		Argument Types
application (app)		bool
	This is a Maconly flag. This brings up the dialog which selects only the application bundle.
defaultFileName (dfn)		unicode
	Set default file name. This flag is available under writemode
directoryMask (dm)		unicode
	This can be used to specify what directory and file names will be displayed in the dialog. If not specified, the current directory will be used, with all files displayed. The string may contain a path name, and must contain a wild-carded file specifier. (eg .ccor /usr/u/) If just a path is specified, then the last directory in the path is taken to be a file specifier, and this will not produce the desired results.
mode (m)		int
	Defines the mode in which to run the file dialog: 0 for read1 for writeWrite mode can not be used in conjunction with the -application flag.
title (t)		unicode
	Set title text. The default value under writemode is Save As. The defaule value under readmode is Open. Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.fileDialog

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

pm.fileDialog()
pm.fileDialog( directoryMask='/usr/u/bozo/myFiles/*.ma' )
pm.fileDialog( dm='*.cc' )