Electron: From Beginner to Pro: Learn to Build Cross Platform Desktop Applications using Github's Electron

© Chris Griffith, Leif Wells 2017

Chris Griffith and Leif Wells, Electron: From Beginner to Pro, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2826-5_7

7. Working with the Dialog Module

Chris Griffith¹  and Leif Wells²

(1)San Diego, California, USA

(2)Atlanta, Georgia, USA

The Electron dialog module provides us with the ability to display native system-level dialogs, including file open, file save, and various alerts. If you have written traditional web apps, you will know that these types of dialogs are not all available to you. In this chapter, we will look at the three dialog types and many of the parameters we can control.

The Dialog module is restricted to the Main process, meaning to interact with it we will either need to call its methods from a menu event, ...