Work around bug

nwutils · Oct 21, 2021 · 4d6aa7e · 4d6aa7e
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diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ function openFolderExplorer (window, options, callback) {
     element.removeAttribute(NW_DIRECTORY_DESCRIPTION);
   }
 
+  // Clear out the previous value before opening the dialogu to work around
+  // a bug where a transformed version of the previous value is shown in the
+  // dialog like 'C__Users_Bob_Desktop'. See: github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/7786
+  if (element && element.files && element.files.clear) {
+    element.files.clear();
+  }
+
   // Trigger a click event to cause the dialog to open
   element.click();
 }

diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "nw-programmatic-folder-select",
-  "version": "1.0.4",
+  "version": "1.0.5",
   "description": "Programmatically open a native folder select dialog in NW.js",
   "main": "index.js",
   "scripts": {