initialDirectory not working in OpenFilePicker

[echidne]

Hi, I run the walpaper example with flutter and initialDirectory is not taken into account by the app even at fresh start after rebooting computer. My system : windows 10 pro 22H2 How to reproduce : A) run the walpaper example with "Flutter run lib/main.dart" and choosing Windows option. What I observed : at start the app is not opening in "My Pictures" folder but in the last directory I opened with a flutter app. What I did : 1) I checked that the 'picturesDirectory' variable was correct with a simple print(picturesDirectory) 2) I tried to change the value of "initialDirectory" by a correct folder path on my computer but without success. B) run the following code with dart :

import 'package:filepicker_windows/filepicker_windows.dart';

void main() {
  final file = OpenFilePicker()
    ..filterSpecification = {
      'Word Document (*.doc)': '*.doc',
      'Web Page (*.htm; *.html)': '*.htm;*.html',
      'Text Document (*.txt)': '*.txt',
      'All Files': '*.*'
    }
    ..defaultFilterIndex = 0
    ..defaultExtension = 'doc'
    ..title = 'Select a document'
    ..initialDirectory = "C:\\some_path";

  final result = file.getFile();
  if (result != null) {
    print(result.path);
  }
}

=> initialDirectory is not taken into account and FilePicker propose the last directory opened.

[halildurmus]

Thanks for reporting this issue.

I just released a new version (v2.1.2), in which I added a new field alwaysShowInitialDirectory to control whether the dialog box should always show the directory defined in initialDirectory to the user, regardless of previous user interaction.

Try this:

import 'package:filepicker_windows/filepicker_windows.dart';

void main() {
  final file = OpenFilePicker()
    ..filterSpecification = {
      'Word Document (*.doc)': '*.doc',
      'Web Page (*.htm; *.html)': '*.htm;*.html',
      'Text Document (*.txt)': '*.txt',
      'All Files': '*.*'
    }
    ..defaultFilterIndex = 0
    ..defaultExtension = 'doc'
    ..title = 'Select a document'
    ..initialDirectory = "C:\\some_path"
    ..alwaysShowInitialDirectory = true;

  final result = file.getFile();
  if (result != null) {
    print(result.path);
  }
}