how to use dialog?

[cosse]

I see a lot of issues solved with Dialog,
But when I try const {dialog} = require('electron').remote; in main.js ,
It will prompt me TypeError: fs.existsSync is not a function,
Where is the correct quote.
Thanks.

[asticode]

It seems like remote module has been removed from newer version of Electron therefore it's not available anymore in JS scripts. And therefore dialog is not available using this method anymore.

I won't have time to work on this change anytime soon, so if somebody feels like contributing, I'm welcoming PRs.

[Yukaru-san]

Fixing this problem should be as easy as adding
require('@electron/remote/main').initialize()
to the underlying index.js from astilectron.

This is caused by a breaking change from electron.

By the way:
const { BrowserWindow } = require('electron').remote
became something like
const { BrowserWindow } = require('@electron/remote')

I did test this but since I don't know how you handle external libraries I didn't create a pull request. I hope this makes it easier to implement a fix for this problem though.

For future references:
Here you can find the The remote's Github repository which needs to be implemented and electron's list of breaking changes

[OneManMonkeySquad]

npm install --save @electron/remote

vendor/astilectron/index.js

// After the last require (line 10 or so):
const remoteMain = require('@electron/remote/main')
remoteMain.initialize();

...

// Need to change window creation (search for windowCreate):
function windowCreate(json) {
    if (!json.windowOptions.webPreferences) {
        json.windowOptions.webPreferences = {}
    }
    json.windowOptions.webPreferences.contextIsolation = false
    json.windowOptions.webPreferences.nodeIntegration = true
    let window = new BrowserWindow(json.windowOptions)
    elements[json.targetID] = window
    windowOptions[json.targetID] = json.windowOptions

    remoteMain.enable(window.webContents); // <------- this is the relevant change; note you need to change the let window = also

yourcode.js

const { dialog } = require('@electron/remote')

function PickInstallationFolder() {
            dialog.showOpenDialog({
                title: "Installation Path",
                properties: ['openDirectory']
            });
        }

[ThePutzy]

Hi,
i tried many ways, but it is not possible to get "dialog" running.

i'm using

VersionAstilectron = "0.56.0"
VersionElectron    = "11.4.3"

Is there currently a possibility to use dialog?

[thomas-lud]

Hi @ThePutzy
I currently use the file dialog with the following settings:

VersionElectron:    "11.1.0",
VersionAstilectron: "0.47.0",

and in the JS I have
const { dialog } = require('electron').remote

[wlwatkins]

@thomas-lud I tried with these versions declared in astilectron.Now but I still get
Cannot read property 'dialog' of undefined at index.dev.js:3 Has this been fixed?

[wlwatkins]

I think i have a fix for the current versions

Astilectron has already been provisioned to version 0.55.0
Electron has already been provisioned to version 11.4.3

as describe here https://stackoverflow.com/a/37893140/8571243 one must set enableRemoteModule: true in electronJS.
Thankfully, @asticode has implemented this possibility, hence

w, err = a.NewWindow("dist/index.html", &astilectron.WindowOptions{
                //......
		Width:          astikit.IntPtr(1500),
		Height:         astikit.IntPtr(800),
		WebPreferences: &astilectron.WebPreferences{EnableRemoteModule: astikit.BoolPtr(true)},
	})
```  and now this works for me