Remote File Browser

Requirements

Firm

• Grouping of animation files
• Store / retrieve user favorites
• Local and remote file browsing
• Enter paths manually
• Display a list of parents to the current directory
• Provide quick access to "special" folders, e.g. "Home", "Desktop", "My Favorites", etc.
• Multiselect related files, e.g. separate geometry and attribute files
• Display additional file attributes, e.g. size, create date, modify date, etc

Optional

• File previewing?
• Provide create directory / delete / rename functionality?

File browser design

Currently, the "Hello World" client defines an abstract interface for file-browsing back-ends, class pqFileDialogModel. The two implementations of pqFileDialogModel are pqLocalFileDialogModel and pqServerFileDialogModel, which implement the required functionality for browsing the local host and a connected PVS server, respectively.

pqFileDialog is the Qt user interface component that is the "front end" for pqFileDialogModel, providing a common graphical user interface for both local and remote file browsing: