btzy/nativefiledialog-extended

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A small cross-platform C library (with an optional C++ wrapper) that invokes native file open, save, and folder selection dialogs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It is an extended fork of mlabbe/nativefiledialog with friendly filter names, UTF-8/UTF-16 support, multiple selection, and no third-party dependencies.

Use cases

• open a native file picker dialog in a C++ desktop app
• show a save file dialog on Windows, Mac, and Linux with one codebase
• let users select a folder in a cross-platform application
• add file open dialogs to a SDL or GLFW game without Qt or wxWidgets
• pick multiple files at once with a native dialog
• open the native Linux file chooser via xdg-desktop-portal

When to choose

• you need native file dialogs with a tiny footprint and no large GUI framework dependency
• you want consistent UTF-8 handling and friendly filter names across platforms
• you use C or C++ and want a simple static library with CMake support

When to avoid

• you need full GUI widgets beyond file dialogs
• you are building a web or mobile app where native desktop dialogs do not apply
• you need dialogs with custom layouts or previews

Facets

library · maturity active

gui file-system sdk desktop-applications cross-platform developer-tools windows cpp c cross-platform file-dialog folder-picker native-ui zlib-license cmake macos linux

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