memahesh / File-Explorer-Gui

Building a Replica of File Explorer using Eel

FExplorer

An attempt at making a generic replica of File Explorer for any Operating System supporting Python.

Screenshots

Features

1. Traverse the file system by clicking on folder contents
2. Traverse the file system by writing the file path
3. Go to parent directory

Requirements

Python module : eel

Development Mode

Install

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

python main.py

Packaging

Taken from here. Look at the last few sections.

Find the executable here for the FileExplorer Application

Building distributable binary with PyInstaller

1. If you want to package your app into a program that can be run on a computer without a Python interpreter installed, you should use PyInstaller.
2. Configure a virtualenv with desired Python version and minimum necessary Python packages. Install PyInstaller pip install PyInstaller
3. In your app's folder, run python -m eel [your_main_script] [your_web_folder] (for example, you might run python -m eel hello.py web)
4. This will create a new folder dist/
5. Valid PyInstaller flags can be passed through, such as excluding modules with the flag: --exclude module_name. For example, you might run python -m eel file_access.py web --exclude [folder_1] --exclude numpy --exclude [folder_2]
6. When happy that your app is working correctly, add --onefile --noconsole flags to build a single executable file
7. Consult the documentation for PyInstaller for more options.

Compatibility

• Windows
• Ubuntu

Todos

• Packaging the application
• Beautify the application page
• Implement Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript
• Add Images to README.md
• Fill README.md
• Add Feature to go to parent directory
• Verify on different OS
• Make an icon :P
• Get icons for different types of files
• List Files from Input Text
• List Files on clicking icons