• Download Filesystem Dialogs Library
  

• Unique animated file and folder lister mode (animation customizable in settings)
• All window/column position/size & sorting settings are saved for every application or the user can choose to always use a favorite dialog settings
• Has a very hiqh quality blazingly fast multi threaded thumbnail mode (that supports much more formats than the default Windows dialog and displays audio files' sample waveform too (optionally cached)
• Drag & drop for files/folders support
• If bass.dll is found (2.3 or 2.4 is supported) thumbnails are generated from all audio files (all file formats that BASS supports, or there is plugin loaded for BASS for the particular format - see http://www.un4seen.com/bass.html for details)
• Implements an enhanced folder selector dialog
• Has option to cache the thumbnails on a per folder basis in highest quality lossless format
• User interface styling system with 35 built-in style themes and custom styling support
• User interface DPI scaling is fully supported
• Hide particular UI elements and customize the dialog appearance if needed
• Has a customizable favorite folders and a recent folder list
• File viewer (previewer) for pictures, audio and video
• Powerful secondary display previewer mode - for multiple display setups, browse the file system on one display and preview the supported files in full screen on a secondary display
• Animated GIF files are played in real-time within the thumbnails and also supported in the previewers
• Option to call the dialogs not modally, but like an ordinary form (ideal for multi monitor applications and this is the prefered way also)
• Option to integrate the dialog into a parent handle into your application and trigger an event on file selection, etc., use the library as a file system browser component in your application
• Option to display custom file information, file thumbnail and preview for files with a callback function - generate thumbnail and implement a previewer for any file type needed by your app.
• Full unicode file name support

• Windows 7
• Windows 8
• Windows 10
• Windows 11

• Unpack the Filesystem Dialogs package ("Filesystem Dialogs x.x.x.zip").
• 1. In Delphi menu: File/New/Package Delphi
• 2. In project manager (in the upper-right corner by default), right-click on 'Package1.dproj' and select 'Add...'
• 3. Unit file name: click 'Browse' and select 'FilesystemDialogsDefs.pas' and 'FilesystemDialogsPanel.pas' then click 'Ok'
• 4. Save the package with a new name.
• 5. In project manager (in the upper-right corner by default), right-click on 'Package1.dproj' (the name as saved) and select 'Install...'

• Other language developers see the "FilesystemDialogsDynamic.pas" or "FilesystemDialogsDefs.h" source for the simple structures (two needed) that can be converted to the needed language.

Uses FilesystemDialogsDefs;

procedure CheckAndSetThumbnailMode(FilesystemDialog: TFilesystemDialog);

    procedure SaveSettingsRegKey(KeyName: String);
    var
        Reg: TRegistry;
    begin
        if RuningOn64BitOS then begin
            Reg := TRegistry.Create(KEY_WOW64_64KEY OR KEY_ALL_ACCESS);
        end else begin
            Reg := TRegistry.Create;
        end;
        try
            Reg.RootKey := HKEY_CURRENT_USER;
            if NOT Reg.KeyExists(KeyName) then begin
                Reg.OpenKey(KeyName, True);
                Reg.WriteBool('Thumbnail mode', True);
            end;
        finally
            Reg.CloseKey;
            Reg.Free;
        end;
    end;

begin
    SaveSettingsRegKey(STR_REG_FD_SETTINGS + '\' + STR_REG_FD_DIALOG_SETTINGS + '\' + FilesystemDialog.DialogGUID);
end;

procedure TForm1.ApplicationEvents1Message(var Msg: tagMSG; var Handled: Boolean);
var
    FocusedHandle: HWND;
begin
    //* Workaround for ofIntegrate mode (focus returns to parent window with cursor keys, so re-set focused control in case)
    if Msg.message = WM_KEYDOWN then begin
        if (Msg.wParam = VK_UP)
        OR (Msg.wParam = VK_DOWN)
        OR (Msg.wParam = VK_LEFT)
        OR (Msg.wParam = VK_RIGHT)
        then begin
            FocusedHandle := GetFocus;
            SendMessage(FocusedHandle, WM_KEYDOWN, Msg.wParam, Msg.lParam);
            Windows.SetFocus(FocusedHandle);
            Handled := True;
        end;
     end;
end;

• JPG images (*.jpg, *.jpeg)
• JPEG2000 images (*.jp2, *.j2k, *.jpc)
• TIFF images (*.tif, *.tiff) (You need a license to use the LZW compressed format)
• GFI fax images (*.fax)
• SGI images (*.bw, *.rgb, *.rgba, *.sgi)
• Autodesk images files (*.cel, *.pic) old style only
• Truevision images (*.tga, *.vst, *.icb, *.vda, *.win)
• ZSoft Paintbrush images (*.pcx, *.pcc)
• Word 5.x screen capture files (*.scr)
• Kodak Photo-CD images (*.pcd)
• Portable pixel/gray map images (*.ppm, *.pgm, *.pbm)
• Dr. Halo images (*.cut, *.pal)
• CompuServe images (*.gif)
• SGI Wavefront images (*.rla, *.rpf)
• Standard Windows bitmap images (*.bmp, *.rle, *.dib),
• Photoshop images (*.psd, *.pdd)
• Paintshop Pro images (*.psp)
• Portable network graphic images (*.png)
• Amiga (*.iff, *.lbm)
• DirectDraw Surface (*.dds)
• Raw Fax format CCITT G3 (*.g3)
• High Dynamic Range (*.hdr)
• JPEG Network Graphics (*.jng)
• Commodore 64 Koala format (*.koa)
• Multiple Network Graphics (*.mng)
• Sun Rasterfile (*.ras)
• Truevision Targa files (*.tga, *.targa)
• Wireless Bitmap (*.wbmp)
• X11 Bitmap Format (*.xbm)
• X11 Pixmap Format (*.xpm)

• Audio file tags are read (tags/cover art): ID3v1, ID3v2, Lyrics3, APEv1, APEv2, Flac (including Ogg Flac), Ogg Vorbis, Opus, MP4 (including video files and 64bit atom size files), WAV LIST INFO, BEXT and CART (including RF64 WAV files) and WMA
• Furthermore if bass.dll is found in the process space or in the file system path, audio sample thumbnails are generated for all audio files that BASS can open (all the file formats that BASS supports or there is a BASS plugin loaded for the particular format).

• HTML files (*.html, *.htm, *.mht)
• URL files (links) (*.url)
• Flash files (*.swf)

• Text files (*.txt, *.text, *.log, *.ini, *.cfg, *.pas, *.cpp, *.h, *.bas) - configurable in settings

• F1: Online help (this page)
  
• F3: Viewer on/off
  
• F7: Create new folder
  
• Esc: Close the dialog & cancel
  
• Ctrl + A: Select all
  

• F2: Rename selected item
  
• Left arrow: Up one folder
  
• Right arrow: If on folder go into it
  
• Up arrow: Navigate on the list up and wraps down if reaches top
  
• Down arrow: Navigate on the list down and wraps up if reaches bottom
  
• Any character: The usual quick jump to the file name beggining with that letter
  
• Ctrl + D: Copy selected file name to the clipboard
  

• Left mouse button: Hold down and drag image
  
• Middle mouse button: Reset all view
  
• Mouse wheel: Zoom in and zoom out
  
• Right mouse button: Full context menu for the file
  
• PageUp: Previous file
  
• PageDown: Advance to the next file
  

• Esc: Close
  
• Space: Audio Play/Pause
  

• Windows
• Amakrits
• Amethyst Kamri
• Aqua Graphite
• Aqua Light Slate
• Auric
• Carbon
• Charcoal Dark Slate
• Cobalt XEMedia
• Cyan Dusk
• Cyan Night
• Emerald Light Slate
• Glossy
• Glow
• Golden Graphite
• Iceberg Classico
• Lavender Classico
• Light
• Luna
• Obsidian
• Onyx Blue
• Ruby Graphite
• Sapphire Kamri
• Silver
• Sky
• Slate Classico
• Smokey Quartz Kamri
• Tablet Dark
• Tablet Light
• Turquoise Gray
• Windows10
• Windows10 Blue
• Windows10 Dark
• Windows10 Green
• Windows10 Purple
• Windows10 SlateGray

    TOpenDialogParams.AdditionalParameters := PChar('UIDPIScaling=192');

• 'UIDPIScaling'
• 'ThumbnailsWidth'
• 'ThumbnailsHeight'
• 'OpenButtonCaption'
• 'OpenAllButtonCaption'

    TOpenDialogParams.AdditionalParameters := PChar('UIDPIScaling=192' + #13#10 + 'ThumbnailsWidth=260' + #13#10 + 'ThumbnailsHeight=200');

• BASS - Audio library. If Filesystem Dialogs finds one it will make use of it.
• Free Image Library - If FreeImage.dll is found in the process space or in the file system path, additional formats are available, - also there is a twice chance that special non-ordinary formats are recognised too.
• Hard Disk Sentinel - A hard disk monitoring application to find possible hard disk problems, performance degradations and failures. It can alert if a problem detected or if temperature is too high and it has other reporting options.
• XnView Shell Extension - Is a graphic file option extension for windows explorer.

• Filesystem Dialogs Library @ un4seen forum
• MSDN - OPENFILENAME Structure
• MSDN - GetOpenFileName() Function
• MSDN - GetSaveFileName() Function
• Basic Tutorial: How To Use a Common Dialog File Open Dialog with Win32 API
• Filesystem Dialogs Thumbnail Database description