electron/docs/tutorial/represented-file.md

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title: Representing Files in a BrowserWindow
description: Set a represented file in the macOS title bar.
slug: represented-file
hide_title: true
---
# Representing Files in a BrowserWindow
## Overview
On macOS, you can set a represented file for any window in your application.
The represented file's icon will be shown in the title bar, and when users
`Command-Click` or `Control-Click`, a popup with a path to the file will be
shown.
![Represented File][represented-image]
> NOTE: The screenshot above is an example where this feature is used to indicate the currently opened file in the Atom text editor.
You can also set the edited state for a window so that the file icon can
indicate whether the document in this window has been modified.
To set the represented file of window, you can use the
[BrowserWindow.setRepresentedFilename][setrepresentedfilename] and
[BrowserWindow.setDocumentEdited][setdocumentedited] APIs.
## Example
```fiddle docs/fiddles/features/represented-file
const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron/main')
const os = require('node:os')
function createWindow () {
const win = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600
})
win.setRepresentedFilename(os.homedir())
win.setDocumentEdited(true)
win.loadFile('index.html')
}
app.whenReady().then(() => {
createWindow()
app.on('activate', () => {
if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) {
createWindow()
}
})
})
app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
app.quit()
}
})
```
After launching the Electron application, click on the title with `Command` or
`Control` key pressed. You should see a popup with the represented file at the top.
In this guide, this is the current user's home directory:
![Represented file](../images/represented-file.png)
[represented-image]: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/639601/5082061/670a949a-6f14-11e4-987a-9aaa04b23c1d.png
[setrepresentedfilename]: ../api/browser-window.md#winsetrepresentedfilenamefilename-macos
[setdocumentedited]: ../api/browser-window.md#winsetdocumenteditededited-macos