"Open in Explorer..."

[imekon]

What's a platform independant way of 'open in explorer', i.e. open a selected file in the file explorer of an OS?

I know how to do it for Windows but what about Linux or MacOS? Is there a platform independant way or is it OS specific?

[Zvoni]

What's a platform independant way of 'open in explorer', i.e. open a selected file in the file explorer of an OS?

I know how to do it for Windows but what about Linux or MacOS? Is there a platform independant way or is it OS specific?

What do you mean?
"open in explorer" like "show that file in its Location within the File-System"?

because that would actually be "open a Folder in the file explorer"

"opening a File" is usally a call to a program with the file as an argument, or simply a "open a file with its assigned standard-program according to its file-extension"

[Martin_fr]

You might want to look at https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/commit/28ba5306c358d81ac0290eafbf651908921b6d9e

IIRC, this
- open the file explorer of the OS
- selects the file in the list of files of the explorer

It also has changes to the IDE, to use that. But you don't need the IDE part.

This was added in "main", so the code isn't available in 4.x

[imekon]

SelectInPath is what I'm looking for