@tauri-apps/plugin-dialog

Interfaces

ConfirmDialogOptions

Properties

Property	Type	Description	Defined in
cancelLabel?	string	The label of the cancel button.	Source: undefined
kind?	"info" | "warning" | "error"	The kind of the dialog. Defaults to info.	Source: undefined
okLabel?	string	The label of the confirm button.	Source: undefined
title?	string	The title of the dialog. Defaults to the app name.	Source: undefined

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DialogFilter

Extension filters for the file dialog.

Since

2.0.0

Properties

Property	Type	Description	Defined in
extensions	string[]	Extensions to filter, without a . prefix. Note: Mobile platforms have different APIs for filtering that may not support extensions. iOS: Extensions are supported in the document picker, but not in the media picker. Android: Extensions are not supported. For these platforms, MIME types are the primary way to filter files, as opposed to extensions. This means the string values here labeled as extensions may also be a MIME type. This property name of extensions is being kept for backwards compatibility, but this may be revisited to specify the difference between extension or MIME type filtering. Example extensions: ['svg', 'png']	Source: undefined
name	string	Filter name.	Source: undefined

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MessageDialogOptions

Since

2.0.0

Properties

Property	Type	Description	Defined in
buttons?	MessageDialogButtons	The buttons of the dialog. Example // Use system default buttons texts await message('Hello World!', { buttons: 'Ok' }) await message('Hello World!', { buttons: 'OkCancel' }) // Or with custom button texts await message('Hello World!', { buttons: { ok: 'Yes!' } }) await message('Take on the task?', { buttons: { ok: 'Accept', cancel: 'Cancel' } }) await message('Show the file content?', { buttons: { yes: 'Show content', no: 'Show in folder', cancel: 'Cancel' } }) Since 2.4.0	Source: undefined
kind?	"info" | "warning" | "error"	The kind of the dialog. Defaults to info.	Source: undefined
okLabel?	string	The label of the Ok button. Deprecated Use MessageDialogOptions.buttons instead.	Source: undefined
title?	string	The title of the dialog. Defaults to the app name.	Source: undefined

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OpenDialogOptions

Options for the open dialog.

Since

2.0.0

Properties

Property	Type	Description	Defined in
canCreateDirectories?	boolean	Whether to allow creating directories in the dialog. Enabled by default. macOS Only	Source: undefined
defaultPath?	string	Initial directory or file path. If it’s a directory path, the dialog interface will change to that folder. If it’s not an existing directory, the file name will be set to the dialog’s file name input and the dialog will be set to the parent folder. On mobile the file name is always used on the dialog’s file name input. If not provided, Android uses (invalid).txt as default file name.	Source: undefined
directory?	boolean	Whether the dialog is a directory selection or not.	Source: undefined
fileAccessMode?	FileAccessMode	The file access mode of the dialog. If not provided, copy is used, which matches the behavior of the open method before the introduction of this option. Usage If a file is opened with : 'copy', it will be copied to the app’s sandbox. This means the file can be read, edited, deleted, copied, or any other operation without any issues, since the file now belongs to the app. This also means that the caller has responsibility of deleting the file if this file is not meant to be retained in the app sandbox. If a file is opened with : 'scoped', the file will remain in its original location and security-scoped access will be automatically managed by the system. Note This is specifically meant for document pickers on iOS or MacOS, in conjunction with security scoped resources. Why only document pickers, and not image or video pickers? The image and video pickers on iOS behave differently from the document pickers, and return NSItemProvider objects instead of file URLs. These are meant to be ephemeral (only available within the callback of the picker), and are not accessible outside of the callback. So for image and video pickers, the only way to access the file is to copy it to the app’s sandbox, and this is the URL that is returned from this API. This means there is no provision for using scoped mode with image or video pickers. If an image or video picker is used, copy is always used.	Source: undefined
filters?	DialogFilter[]	The filters of the dialog. On mobile platforms, if either: A) the pickerMode is set to media, image, or video — or — B) the filters include only either image or video mime types, the media picker will be displayed. Otherwise, the document picker will be displayed.	Source: undefined
multiple?	boolean	Whether the dialog allows multiple selection or not.	Source: undefined
pickerMode?	PickerMode	The preferred mode of the dialog. This is meant for mobile platforms (iOS and Android) which have distinct file and media pickers. If not provided, the dialog will automatically choose the best mode based on the MIME types or extensions of the filters. On desktop, this option is ignored.	Source: undefined
recursive?	boolean	If directory is true, indicates that it will be read recursively later. Defines whether subdirectories will be allowed on the scope or not.	Source: undefined
title?	string	The title of the dialog window (desktop only).	Source: undefined

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SaveDialogOptions

Options for the save dialog.

Since

2.0.0

Properties

Property	Type	Description	Defined in
canCreateDirectories?	boolean	Whether to allow creating directories in the dialog. Enabled by default. macOS Only	Source: undefined
defaultPath?	string	Initial directory or file path. If it’s a directory path, the dialog interface will change to that folder. If it’s not an existing directory, the file name will be set to the dialog’s file name input and the dialog will be set to the parent folder. On mobile the file name is always used on the dialog’s file name input. If not provided, Android uses (invalid).txt as default file name.	Source: undefined
filters?	DialogFilter[]	The filters of the dialog.	Source: undefined
title?	string	The title of the dialog window (desktop only).	Source: undefined

Type Aliases

FileAccessMode

type FileAccessMode: "copy" | "scoped";

The file access mode of the dialog.

• copy: copy/move the picked file to the app sandbox; no scoped access required.
• scoped: keep file in place; security-scoped access is automatically managed.

Note: This option is only supported on iOS 14 and above. This parameter is ignored on iOS 13 and below.

Source: undefined

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MessageDialogButtons

type MessageDialogButtons: MessageDialogDefaultButtons | MessageDialogCustomButtons;

The buttons of a message dialog.

Since

2.4.0

Source: undefined

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MessageDialogButtonsOk

type MessageDialogButtonsOk: object & BanExcept<"ok">;

The Ok button of a message dialog.

Type declaration

Name	Type	Description	Defined in
ok	string	The Ok button.	Source: undefined

Since

2.4.0

Source: undefined

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MessageDialogButtonsOkCancel

type MessageDialogButtonsOkCancel: object & BanExcept<"ok" | "cancel">;

The Ok and Cancel buttons of a message dialog.

Type declaration

Name	Type	Description	Defined in
cancel	string	The Cancel button.	Source: undefined
ok	string	The Ok button.	Source: undefined

Since

2.4.0

Source: undefined

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MessageDialogButtonsYesNoCancel

type MessageDialogButtonsYesNoCancel: object & BanExcept<"yes" | "no" | "cancel">;

The Yes, No and Cancel buttons of a message dialog.

Type declaration

Name	Type	Description	Defined in
cancel	string	The Cancel button.	Source: undefined
no	string	The No button.	Source: undefined
yes	string	The Yes button.	Source: undefined

Since

2.4.0

Source: undefined

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MessageDialogCustomButtons

type MessageDialogCustomButtons: MessageDialogButtonsYesNoCancel | MessageDialogButtonsOkCancel | MessageDialogButtonsOk;

Custom buttons for a message dialog.

Since

2.4.0

Source: undefined

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MessageDialogDefaultButtons

type MessageDialogDefaultButtons: "Ok" | "OkCancel" | "YesNo" | "YesNoCancel";

Default buttons for a message dialog.

Since

2.4.0

Source: undefined

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MessageDialogResult

type MessageDialogResult:
  | "Yes"
  | "No"
  | "Ok"
  | "Cancel"
  | string & object;

The result of a message dialog.

The result is a string if the dialog has custom buttons, otherwise it is one of the default buttons.

Since

2.4.0

Source: undefined

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OpenDialogReturn<T>

type OpenDialogReturn<T>: T["directory"] extends true ? T["multiple"] extends true ? string[] | null : string | null : T["multiple"] extends true ? string[] | null : string | null;

Type Parameters

Type Parameter
T extends OpenDialogOptions

Source: undefined

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PickerMode

type PickerMode: "document" | "media" | "image" | "video";

The preferred mode of the dialog. This is meant for mobile platforms (iOS and Android) which have distinct file and media pickers. On desktop, this option is ignored. If not provided, the dialog will automatically choose the best mode based on the MIME types or extensions of the filters.

Note: This option is only supported on iOS 14 and above. This parameter is ignored on iOS 13 and below.

Source: undefined

Functions

ask()

function ask(message, options?): Promise<boolean>

Shows a question dialog with Yes and No buttons.

Convenient wrapper for await message('msg', { buttons: 'YesNo' }) === 'Yes'

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
message	string	The message to show.
options?	string | ConfirmDialogOptions	The dialog’s options. If a string, it represents the dialog title.

Returns

Promise<boolean>

A promise resolving to a boolean indicating whether Yes was clicked or not.

Example

import { ask } from '@tauri-apps/plugin-dialog';
const yes = await ask('Are you sure?', 'Tauri');
const yes2 = await ask('This action cannot be reverted. Are you sure?', { title: 'Tauri', kind: 'warning' });

Since

2.0.0

Source: undefined

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confirm()

function confirm(message, options?): Promise<boolean>

Shows a question dialog with Ok and Cancel buttons.

Convenient wrapper for await message('msg', { buttons: 'OkCancel' }) === 'Ok'

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
message	string	The message to show.
options?	string | ConfirmDialogOptions	The dialog’s options. If a string, it represents the dialog title.

Returns

Promise<boolean>

A promise resolving to a boolean indicating whether Ok was clicked or not.

Example

import { confirm } from '@tauri-apps/plugin-dialog';
const confirmed = await confirm('Are you sure?', 'Tauri');
const confirmed2 = await confirm('This action cannot be reverted. Are you sure?', { title: 'Tauri', kind: 'warning' });

Since

2.0.0

Source: undefined

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message()

function message(message, options?): Promise<MessageDialogResult>

Shows a message dialog with an Ok button.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
message	string	The message to show.
options?	string | MessageDialogOptions	The dialog’s options. If a string, it represents the dialog title.

Returns

Promise<MessageDialogResult>

A promise indicating the success or failure of the operation.

Example

import { message } from '@tauri-apps/plugin-dialog';
await message('Tauri is awesome', 'Tauri');
await message('File not found', { title: 'Tauri', kind: 'error' });

Since

2.0.0

Source: undefined

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open()

function open<T>(options): Promise<OpenDialogReturn<T>>

Open a file/directory selection dialog.

The selected paths are added to the filesystem and asset protocol scopes. When security is more important than the easy of use of this API, prefer writing a dedicated command instead.

Note that the scope change is not persisted, so the values are cleared when the application is restarted. You can save it to the filesystem using tauri-plugin-persisted-scope.

Type Parameters

Type Parameter
T extends OpenDialogOptions

Parameters

Parameter	Type
options	T

Returns

Promise<OpenDialogReturn<T>>

A promise resolving to the selected path(s)

Examples

import { open } from '@tauri-apps/plugin-dialog';
// Open a selection dialog for image files
const selected = await open({
  multiple: true,
  filters: [{
    name: 'Image',
    extensions: ['png', 'jpeg']
  }]
});
if (Array.isArray(selected)) {
  // user selected multiple files
} else if (selected === null) {
  // user cancelled the selection
} else {
  // user selected a single file
}

import { open } from '@tauri-apps/plugin-dialog';
import { appDir } from '@tauri-apps/api/path';
// Open a selection dialog for directories
const selected = await open({
  directory: true,
  multiple: true,
  defaultPath: await appDir(),
});
if (Array.isArray(selected)) {
  // user selected multiple directories
} else if (selected === null) {
  // user cancelled the selection
} else {
  // user selected a single directory
}

Since

2.0.0

Source: undefined

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save()

function save(options): Promise<string | null>

Open a file/directory save dialog.

The selected path is added to the filesystem and asset protocol scopes. When security is more important than the easy of use of this API, prefer writing a dedicated command instead.

Note that the scope change is not persisted, so the values are cleared when the application is restarted. You can save it to the filesystem using tauri-plugin-persisted-scope.

Parameters

Parameter	Type
options	SaveDialogOptions

Returns

Promise<string | null>

A promise resolving to the selected path.

Example

import { save } from '@tauri-apps/plugin-dialog';
const filePath = await save({
  filters: [{
    name: 'Image',
    extensions: ['png', 'jpeg']
  }]
});

Since

2.0.0

Source: undefined