Adding Import & Export functionality globally

steammake3 · July 16, 2025, 9:37pm

Godot Version

4.4.1

Question

Hey everyone,
I recently stumbled across Pixelorama, and I want to add the file save and load functionality it has. However, I can’t seem to find how they managed to make it such that you can select a file from anywhere on your computer, rather than being restricted to the res:// and user:// directories.

Even after extensively looking through their GitHub trying to figure out how they did it, I can’t pin down what makes it work. Any help would be appreciated.

colelli · July 16, 2025, 9:48pm

I believe the “magic” happens under the Import.gd script. Or at least that’s where I found a reference to a resource being loaded directly from a directory.

github.com/Orama-Interactive/Pixelorama

src/Autoload/Import.gd

master

extends Node


# Get hold of the brushes, including random brushes (subdirectories and % files
# in them, non % files get loaded independently.) nyaaa
# Returns a list of [
# [non random single png files in the root subdir],
# {
# map of subdirectories to lists of files for
# the randomised brush - if a directory contains no
# randomised files then it is not included in this.
# },
# {
# map of subdirectories to lists of files inside of them
# that are not for randomised brushes.
# }
# ]
# The separation of nonrandomised and randomised files
# in subdirectories allows different XDG_DATA_DIR overriding
# for each nyaa.

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mrcdk · July 17, 2025, 4:33am

If you are using a FileDialog then you can change FileDialog.access to Access.ACCESS_FILESYSTEM to be able to navigate the whole filesystem.