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[Request]: Sharing on windows shares only text
Plugin
share_plus
Use case
On windows the sharing dialog always shows a link to the file rather than a preview, and always shares the path to the file, which may be temporary and linked to a single machine.
This makes the sharing action pretty pointless IMO. Now it may be a limitation of Windows (hence labelling as enhancement) but it would be really nice to have useful file sharing from flutter on windows even if someone has to code a new dialog..
Proposal
Ideally, something like this.. but just a text replacement would suffice, as long as it's possible to share a file.
It's literally a single line,.. this works correctly on ios and android.
Share.shareXFiles([XFile(image.filename)],
subject: "Conservatory",
sharePositionOrigin: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, size.width, size.height / 2));
Hi!
Can you use Share.shareFiles instead?
I made the Windows implementation in C++/WRL for package:share_plus, where you can see that it's working correctly. Share.shareXFiles is a newer API which still internally calls Share.shareFiles, it might be that it needs some changes specific to Windows.
As expected, that makes no difference.
Share.shareFiles([image.filename],
subject: "Conservatory",
sharePositionOrigin: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, size.width, size.height / 2));
I have also tried:
Share.shareFiles([image.filename], mimeTypes: ["image/png"],
subject: "Conservatory",
sharePositionOrigin: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, size.width, size.height / 2));
and
Share.shareFiles([image.filename], mimeTypes: ["image/png"],
sharePositionOrigin: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, size.width, size.height / 2));
The last one causes the share dialog to fail with an error 'Try that again' (presumably subject is mandatory).
As expected, that makes no difference.
Share.shareFiles([image.filename], subject: "Conservatory", sharePositionOrigin: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, size.width, size.height / 2));I have also tried:
Share.shareFiles([image.filename], mimeTypes: ["image/png"], subject: "Conservatory", sharePositionOrigin: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, size.width, size.height / 2));and
Share.shareFiles([image.filename], mimeTypes: ["image/png"], sharePositionOrigin: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, size.width, size.height / 2));The last one causes the share dialog to fail with an error 'Try that again' (presumably subject is mandatory).
The best guess I can make is to try sharing some another file path (check for some file that exists on your system). Your file path seems to be shortened by Windows (the ~1 symbol).
I just tried with a fixed path:
Share.shareXFiles([XFile(r"D:\Test.PNG")],
subject: "Conservatory",
sharePositionOrigin: Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, size.width, size.height / 2));
And it did exactly the same thing.
Just in case someone else comes across this issue, the path should be formatted as on windows.
In my case it was enough to do:
path.replaceAll("/", "\\");
and it was working fine
