[Resolved] Folder selection for Project Interpreter Paths bug (Win 10). Can't select folder, only opens them.

Hello,

    Whenever I try to go to the Project Interpreters and select one and then try to add additional paths, I get stuck in a loop which will not actually select the folder, it just opens the folder. I tried right-clicking and hitting Select on the folder, using shift+enter, alt+enter, every possible key combination that might do something different, etc. I even tried making a shortcut to the folder and selecting that to see if it would accept that, but that ended up in the same situation.

I tried dragging the folder into the list of paths, but nothing works. I checked the PyCharm registry menu to see if it was stored there, but could not find it. I also tried searching my drive to see if that list was stored in a file but could not find it.

Here is an actual example of it in action.

https://i.imgur.com/Lid7wOv.mp4

How can I go about adding a path here? I am trying to use Python with Houdini, but to have access to the "hou" namespace I need to be able to add it for this project. I was using v2019.3.1 at first, and tried to roll back to 2019.3, but it still did the same thing. Other menus that use a PyCharm built-in file selection menu work fine, it's just when this file selection with the white box comes up, it never works.

In VSCode I was able to just add this and it works fine:

 "terminal.integrated.env.windows": { 
        "PYTHONPATH" : "C:\\Program Files\\Side Effects Software\\Houdini18.0.353\\houdini\\python2.7libs",
        "PATH" : "${env:PATH};C:\\Program Files\\Side Effects Software\\Houdini18.0.353\\bin"
    },

Is there an equivelent way to manually edit the configs like this in PyCharm without having to actually add it to my systems paths?

Thanks,

-MH

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4 comments

You seem to have native file chooser enabled. Please go to registry settings (double shift | type "registry") and check the option "ide.win.file.chooser.native", disable if enabled, then try again. 

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Oh man, thank you. That was driving me batty. If that is not supposed to be like that, I am not sure how it became set. I never changed anything in the registry, at least not for PyCharm. It is working now, thanks a bunch!

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Ah, I see. Looks like it goes back a good while, too. Well, I am just glad it is working now at least. Thanks again.

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