Simple File Manager?

[Elmer Martens]

How to make a simple File Manager?
Please!

Thanks

[Steve Garman]

Pretty much you make anything.

Decide what you want it to do, think roughly what you want it to look like and then decide how you are going to do it.

I have never coded a file manager in DroidScript but I did at one time use a file-explorer I coded myself.

There is a blog-post I wrote less than a month after I had discovered DroidScript ( that was not its name then ) so remember, this was written by a beginner with what is now a very old version of DroidScript.

I have no idea whether the code will still run or what it looks like if it does. I expect the app design is embarrassing.

But it may help you think about what you want.

http://androidscriptkiddy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/coding-file-explorer.html

[Elmer Martens]

Hi,
Is there an example that shows how a list can hide the files and just show the folders?

[Steve Garman]

You loop through the list testing each file with app.IsFolder() to decide whether to add it to your final list.

This sample may help.
http://wiki.droidscript.me.uk/doku.php?id=sample_code:folder_picker

[Elmer Martens]

Thanks for that.
If I can ask for a little more help with this thing, can you show my isn't right on this code below or why doesn't work right?

var folder = "/sdcard/DroidScript";

//Called when application is started. 
function OnStart() 
{

//Create a layout with objects vertically centered. 
lay = app.CreateLayout( "linear", "FillXY" );  

lst = app.CreateList(  "", 1, 1); 
Items = app.ListFolder(folder).toString().split(","); 
for ( i=0; i<Items.length; i++) 
{ 
if( app.IsFolder( folder + Items[i] )) 
{ 
lst.AddItem( Items[i], "Folder", "Folder"); 
} 
else 
{ 
lst.AddItem( Items[i], "File", "photofolder");
}
}
lay.AddChild( lst );

app.AddLayout( lay ); 
}

[Steve Garman]

It is difficult to answer that question as you did not explain what you expected to happen and what happened that was different.

However, at a quick glance, I would guess you are missing a slash.

if( app.IsFolder( folder + "/" + Items[i] )) 

[Elmer Martens]

Yeah that really was my problem,
I should by more careful.

Thanks for your help.