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The Filesystem Browser
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Sometimes higan will need you
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to choose a file or folder.
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For this, it uses a special Filesystem Browser dialog.
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Although many operating systems provide a native filesystem browser,
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they do not all allow the same customisations.
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Therefore,
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higan provides its own filesystem browser
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that works the same way on every platform.
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The filesystem browser shows the contents of some particular folder,
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and allows you to select one of those items.
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Across the top of the window,
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a text-box displays the path of the current folder.
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If you want to browse a specific path,
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you may edit the contents of this box
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and press Enter to switch to the new location.
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The ![two-blue-arrows](refresh.png) button is "Refresh".
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Pressing this button will check
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if anything has been added to or removed from the current folder
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and update the list to match.
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The ![house](home.png) button is "Home".
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Pressing this button will switch to your home folder.
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The ![up-arrow](up.png) button is "Parent".
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Pressing this button will
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switch to the parent of the current folder.
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Most of the filesystem browser lists the contents
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of the current folder.
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Double-clicking a folder,
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or selecting it and pressing Enter,
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will switch to showing the contents of that folder.
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If the list has keyboard focus,
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typing any text will jump to the first item in the list
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whose name begins with the text you typed.
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If a drop-down list appears in the bottom-left,
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it allows you to choose which files appear in the list,
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based on file-extension.
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If this filesystem browser is asking for a file,
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you can choose one
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by double-clicking it,
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by selecting it and pressing Enter,
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or by selecting it and clicking the "Select" button in the bottom-right.
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If this filesystem browser is asking for a folder,
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you can choose one
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by selecting it and clicking the "Select" button in the bottom-right.
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Double-clicking
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or selecting and pressing Enter don't work,
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they just switch to viewing the contents of that folder.
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The "Cancel" button in the bottom-right
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closes the filesystem browser without selecting anything.
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