Select file dialog for illustrator scripting

[OhmsG]

I can't find anything related to this in the Illustrator Scripting docs.

I would like to select a file and get a file path so I can do something with it in scripting.  Is this something that should just be done with standard js or does illustrator have a Select File Dialog box you can call?

[Ten A]

If you ExtendScript, You can use "Script UI" class, or you want to make CEP Extension, You can use "showOpenDialog" method under the "window.cep.fs".
However, You need to read some references before you try.
Here are some links you need to know about it.

https://www.adobe.io/apis.html
https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources/blob/master/CEP_9.x/Documentation/CEP%209.0%20HTML%20Exte...

[OhmsG]

According to this reference:  

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/articles/adobe-cep-apis.html

This would be the code to showOpenDialog:

 var filetypes = new Array(); filetypes[0] = “pptx”; filetypes[1] = “do”; filetypes[2] = “psd”; var result = window.cep.fs.showOpenDialog(false,false,’SELECT PSD’,’/tmp/’,filetypes); alert(result.data); //displays the path to the selected file

This does not work.  This however does:

var result = window.cep.fs.readFile(path);  so the window.cep.fs does work but showOpenDialog doesn't. Also I've tried to find more info on showOpenDialog and no luck.  Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

[OhmsG]

The documentation has read file from path, make dir, writeFile but no showOpenDialog or how to select a file:

https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources/blob/master/CEP_9.x/Documentation/CEP%209.0%20HTML%20Exte...

[OhmsG]

Ok forget all that other stuff!  This worked:  

var result = window.cep.fs.showOpenDialog();
alert(result.data);

[CarlosCanto]

you can use the openDialog Function

var f = File.openDialog ('Select File...');

alert(f.fullName);

[OhmsG]

This did not work, no error just didn't work.

[daitranthanhoa]

Can i filter pdf file?

[Thomas_Calvin]

I was shocked to find that this actually works. Now... how do we find the path of the scripts directory?