Question by p-ansaloni · Jan 18, 2017 at 08:17 AM · scripting problem filebrowser windows-form

Unable to browse files from unity build using OpenFileDialog()

Hello everybody, I'm fairly new to scripting and I found nothing on forum about my problem. I'm writing code to let the user specify a file from the computer and I used mono's system.windows.form.dll to call OpenFileDialog() and retrive the FileName property. It works fine and without error from the editor, but not in the builded game. From the build when i click the button to retrive the file it shows the file dialog with the correct initial path, but it doesn't show any file or subfolder, I'm only able to navigate in the Enviroment.SpecialFolders.

Here's the code I used to call OpenFileDialog():

 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Windows.Forms;
 
 public class MyClass : Monobehaviour
 {
 OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog();
 ...
 public void SearchFile()
     {
         string fileName = scenePath;
         ofd.InitialDirectory = startDirectory;
         ofd.Title = dialogTitle;
         ofd.RestoreDirectory = false;
 
         if (ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
         {
             fileName = ofd.FileName;
             fromSceneDialog = true;
             sender = 0;
             //Debug.Log(fileName);
             SetPath(fileName);
         }
     }

and here's the result when I call the method SearchFile(): alt text