Option to display file sizes and modification dates, and optionally sort by them

[crumblingstatue]

These are commonly expected features from a file picker

[hacknus]

Can we use the table demo for that?

The metadata will be available with #184.

[fluxxcode]

We can try. But it won't be that easy and we have to rewrite a lot of code for the central panel.

Is there a show_rows option in the default egui tables to update only visible elements?

[hacknus]

I think it also works with a ScrollArea around it, but I've never tried

[hacknus]

I'm playing around with it, and I think the TableBuilder could definitely be the way to go, but as you said, there is quite some work involved.

[hacknus]

But I think this bug in egui needs to be fixed first, before we can continue here: emilk/egui#5045

[fluxxcode]

Ough yes, that doesn't look good. Maybe we can implement a workaround for this. Unfortunately, the issue has been around for 3 months now...

[hacknus]

found a workaround for the egui bug. getting there...

[hacknus]

The main change is that this function

    /// Returns an iterator in the given range of the directory contents.
    /// No filters are applied using this iterator.
    pub fn iter_range_mut(
        &mut self,
        range: std::ops::Range<usize>,
    ) -> impl Iterator<Item = &mut DirectoryEntry> {
        self.content[range].iter_mut()
    }

will no longer be used and instead everything is handled by indices:

    /// Returns one directory entry by index
    pub fn get(&mut self, i: usize) -> Option<&mut DirectoryEntry> {
        self.content.get_mut(i)
    }

    pub fn filtered_get<'s>(
        &'s mut self,
        index: usize,
        search_value: &'s str,
    ) -> Option<&'s mut DirectoryEntry> {
        self.content
            .iter_mut()
            .filter(|p| apply_search_value(p, search_value))
            .nth(index)
    }

    pub fn filtered_count(&self, search_value: &str) -> usize {
        self.content
            .iter()
            .filter(|p| apply_search_value(p, search_value))
            .count()
    }

This is due to the implementation of rows() where it does not get you a range object but just an index. It still has a ScrollArea in the back and should only display the items that are visible. And I think this way also for the filtered ones (?)