How to access all Harddrives in kivy FileChooser Python

Question

how can I display all harddrives installed in the System (C,X,J) in a kivy FileChooser using either Listview or Iconview in kivy 1.11.1?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '20 at 13:27

6

I faced the same problem and finally solved it by adding "shortcut" buttons for the drives. I start by getting a list of all the drives using:

drives = ['%s:' % d for d in string.ascii_uppercase if os.path.exists('%s:' % d)]

Then creating a Button for each drive, with the on_release bound to an open_entry() method. The open_entry() method creates a fake Entry and calls the FileChooser open_entry() method.

answered Jul 10 '20 at 13:27

John Anderson

35,991
4
13
36

Good solution/work around! Using Kivy 2.0.0 and all other solutions on stack use deprecated functions such as `listadapters` and `listviews`. – Binx Dec 14 '21 at 16:43

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 23 '22 at 11:01

3

The best solution I found is Kivy's Garden FileBrowser widget:

https://github.com/kivy-garden/garden.filebrowser

Which produces the following layout:

answered Jul 23 '22 at 11:01

kelkka

874
7
18

How to access all Harddrives in kivy FileChooser Python

2 Answers2

Linked