Opening a folder with GLFW? (LWJGL3)

[Lightbuffer]

Hello,

How can I open a folder to the user through Java/GFLW? I can't use AWT's stuff due to the function that I used in LWGJL2 is not working with AWT's headless mode for some reason, and I couldn't find anything relevant in Google. I'm open to OS-specific implementations, but I need at least it to work on Windows.

Thank you for attention! 

[spasi]

Hey Lightbuffer,

LWJGL has bindings to Native File Dialog and tiny file dialogs. Try both and use the one that feels/works better for you.

[Lightbuffer]

Hey Lightbuffer,

LWJGL has bindings to Native File Dialog and tiny file dialogs. Try both and use the one that feels/works better for you.

Thank you for a quick response! This information would be helpful in the future, however I tested both and it's not exactly what I needed. Sorry for being vague, I suppose that's why I couldn't find the solution for my problem in the first place. What I meant by "opening a folder" is: I give a path to a folder, and it opens a Windows explorer window within that folder, kind of like command "explorer C:\Users\...\" in cmd.exe would do, i.e. I don't need to query for user to pick some folder or a file, but these bindings are certainly will help in the future!

[jakethesnake]

I've stolen this from somebody online. Can't remember who. It works with lwjgl 3, should probably work with 2, despite awt.

import java.awt.Desktop;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Locale;

final class FileOpener {

	public static void open(File file) {

		if (!openSystem(file.getPath()) && !openDESKTOP(file))
			System.err.println("unable to open file " + System.getProperty("os.name"));
	}

	private static boolean openSystem(String what) {

		String os = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT);

		if (os.contains("win")) {
			return (run("explorer", "%s", what));
		}

		if (os.contains("mac")) {
			return (run("open", "%s", what));
		}

		return run("kde-open", "%s", what) || run("gnome-open", "%s", what) || run("xdg-open", "%s", what);

	}

	private static boolean openDESKTOP(File file) {

		if (Desktop.isDesktopSupported() && Desktop.getDesktop().isSupported(Desktop.Action.OPEN)) {
			try {
				Desktop.getDesktop().open(file);
				return true;
			} catch (IOException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}
		return false;

	}

	private static boolean run(String command, String arg, String file) {

		String[] args = arg.split(" ");
		String[] parts = new String[args.length + 1];
		parts[0] = command;
		for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
			parts[i + 1] = String.format(args[0], file).trim();
		}

		try {
			Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(parts);
			if (p == null)
				return false;

			try {
				if (p.exitValue() == 0)
					return true;
				return false;
			} catch (IllegalThreadStateException itse) {
				return true;
			}
		} catch (IOException e) {
			//e.printStackTrace();
			return false;
		}
	}

}

[Lightbuffer]

Thank you very much jakethesnake, that is working!