# My First Slate Window: Tree View that Reflects contents of Hard Drive, real time! **URL:** \ **Category:** C++\ **Tags:** unreal-engine\ **Created:** [May 12, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-first-slate-window-tree-view-that-reflects-contents-of-hard-drive-real-time/4235 "2014-05-12T18:47:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rama](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/rama/32/882413_2.png) [@Rama](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Rama)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-first-slate-window-tree-view-that-reflects-contents-of-hard-drive-real-time/4235/1 "2014-05-12T18:47:22Z")
Dear Community, Here I present to you my first Slate Window! It reflects the contents of my hard drive, and auto updates itself as I make changes to my computer’s hard drive! I used a Tree View widget to reflect the file structure for easy viewing and navigation. Once the user clicks on a certain directory in the Slate window top portion, the file contents of all subdirectories are displayed in the lower portion! The Slate window is light-weight and features my own unique Style 🙂 **Annnnnnnd** **I am giving you the entire c++ code** for the foundation of what you see in the video, for your own unique implementation! What took me the longest to figure out was all the basics, which I am giving you on the wiki page! [![](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/9/0/1/9018f00d7e74f3c61c56d4b855209c9cc5921e17.jpeg "MyFirstSlateWindow") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x40jXCy8dvk) **Wiki Link to the C++ Code** > **[A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/a-new-community-hosted-unreal-engine-wiki/141494)** > > After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline. These resources now live on a new community-run Unreal Engine Community Wiki — https://unrealcommunity.wiki/! You will be able to find content from... Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![VegasRich](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@VegasRich](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/VegasRich)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-first-slate-window-tree-view-that-reflects-contents-of-hard-drive-real-time/4235/2 "2014-05-12T21:28:53Z")
Handy for saved game files, custom icons/portraits, or other things. Very handy, thanks! You’re very industrious… ---
**Author:** ![Rama](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/rama/32/882413_2.png) [@Rama](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Rama)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-first-slate-window-tree-view-that-reflects-contents-of-hard-drive-real-time/4235/3 "2014-05-13T01:28:01Z")
> [@VegasRich;41415](#): > > Handy for saved game files, custom icons/portraits, or other things. Very handy, thanks! You’re very industrious… Hee hee! Thanks VegasRich! ---
**Author:** ![Rama](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/rama/32/882413_2.png) [@Rama](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Rama)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 5:49am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-first-slate-window-tree-view-that-reflects-contents-of-hard-drive-real-time/4235/4 "2014-05-13T05:49:21Z")
> [@;41877](#): > > Good job , this will be useful to plenty of people. Thanks ! And congrats on your awesome plugins! (see his signature 🙂 ) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Andargor](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Andargor](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Andargor)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-first-slate-window-tree-view-that-reflects-contents-of-hard-drive-real-time/4235/5 "2014-05-16T19:01:08Z")
, it is not evident from the video, but is your window a child of the viewport, or a separate pop-up window? I can do the latter with: ```auto FSlateApplication::Get().AddWindow( SomeSWindowRef ); ``` But I would like to know how to have the SWindow as a child of the viewport to keep it “inside” the game. ---
**Author:** ![Rama](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/rama/32/882413_2.png) [@Rama](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Rama)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-first-slate-window-tree-view-that-reflects-contents-of-hard-drive-real-time/4235/6 "2014-05-16T22:29:18Z")
> [@dmacesic;48855](#): > > , it is not evident from the video, but is your window a child of the viewport, or a separate pop-up window? I can do the latter with: > > ```auto > > FSlateApplication::Get().AddWindow( SomeSWindowRef ); > > ``` > > But I would like to know how to have the SWindow as a child of the viewport to keep it “inside” the game. To avoid having the issue where clicking outside the new window would cause it to disappear / be hidden in the layers of windows, I had to make it a “native child” of the current parent window ````auto **Code Sample ~ Get Active Top Level Window** I wrote this code to ensure that my new window was a native child of whatever the " **Active Top Level Window**" was: ``` TSharedPtr TopWindow = FSlateApplication::Get().GetActiveTopLevelWindow(); if(TopWindow.IsValid()) { //Add as Native FSlateApplication::Get().AddWindowAsNativeChild(NewWindow, TopWindow.ToSharedRef(), true); } else { //Default in case no top window FSlateApplication::Get().AddWindow(NewWindow); } ``` ```` ---
**Author:** ![Andargor](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Andargor](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Andargor)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-first-slate-window-tree-view-that-reflects-contents-of-hard-drive-real-time/4235/7 "2014-05-16T23:14:57Z")
> [@;49116](#): > > To avoid having the issue where clicking outside the new window would cause it to disappear / be hidden in the layers of windows, I had to make it a “native child” of the current parent window Solved my issue, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Rama](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/rama/32/882413_2.png) [@Rama](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Rama)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-first-slate-window-tree-view-that-reflects-contents-of-hard-drive-real-time/4235/8 "2014-05-17T01:06:14Z")
> [@dmacesic;49176](#): > > Solved my issue, thanks! Yaaay! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Syedhs](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Syedhs](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Syedhs)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 8:05am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-first-slate-window-tree-view-that-reflects-contents-of-hard-drive-real-time/4235/9 "2015-06-17T08:05:45Z")
, From what I can gather (video, comments), this slate application does load a level which you extend class UnrealEdEngine. Can you please describe more about this - a full working source code would be a very nice start! ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_c79aea4986fd726db6bff6714bf989a0](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Anonymous\_c79aea4986fd726db6bff6714bf989a0](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Anonymous_c79aea4986fd726db6bff6714bf989a0)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/my-first-slate-window-tree-view-that-reflects-contents-of-hard-drive-real-time/4235/10 "2019-11-12T09:34:53Z")
Thank you:)