ovui-widgets-content 0.2.0

ovui-widgets Content Browser

NVIDIA ovui-widgets-content

1. What is ovui-widgets-content?

ovui-widgets-content is the Content Browser distribution of ovui-widgets, the production-shaped scene-widget family built on ovui — NVIDIA's standalone distribution of the Omniverse omni.ui UI framework. It provides the file-navigation surface used to find and open scene content, and it runs standalone: no Omniverse Kit installation required.

The browser is backend-oriented: a local filesystem backend ships with the package, and storage behavior can be replaced behind the same visible widget surface. It is the Content Browser hosted by the ovui-widgets USD Viewer application and supplies that app's explicit open-file handoff.

ovui is pre-release software and is not enterprise-supported.

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2. What functionalities are available, and who are the target users?

What you can do with it:

• Navigate content — file browsing with bookmarks, recent files, and search.
• Present flexibly — grid and list presentation of folders and files.
• Manage files — rename and delete flows plus import/export helpers.
• Pick files from dialogs — reusable file picker dialogs for open/save flows.
• Hand off explicitly — a deliberate open-file handoff so the hosting application controls what opening a file means.

Who benefits:

• USD tool & application developers — add production-shaped content browsing and file pickers to ovui applications.
• Teams with custom storage — swap the backend (asset services, databases, virtual filesystems) while keeping the identical browsing UI.

Installation:

python -m pip install ovui-widgets-content

The browser is normally hosted by the ovui-widgets-app USD Viewer application, which routes chosen files into its stage-open flow; it can also be embedded directly in a custom ovui application.

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3. Documentation and reference links

• Quickstart & install: https://github.com/NVIDIA-Omniverse/ovui#readme
• Architecture overview: https://github.com/NVIDIA-Omniverse/ovui/tree/main/docs
• Data adapters guide: https://github.com/NVIDIA-Omniverse/ovui/blob/main/ovui-data-adapters/README.md
• Core toolkit (PyPI): https://pypi.org/project/ovui/
• Source (GitHub): https://github.com/NVIDIA-Omniverse/ovui
• Support: Issues

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4. System requirements

• Python 3.10+ declared by the wheel; the ovui runtime underneath the widget family requires Python 3.12+
• Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 / Debian) and Windows (Windows 11 / Windows Server 2022), x86_64 — the platforms supported by the ovui runtime
• Declared dependency: ovui-widgets-common>=0.1.0

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5. Licensing

• Governed by the NVIDIA Software License Agreement and the Product Specific Terms for NVIDIA Omniverse.
• Source-available for inspection; pre-release versions are provided AS-IS and are not currently open to external contributions.

Note: ovui is pre-release Early Access software and is not enterprise-supported. APIs may change before the 1.0 release.

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ovui-widgets-content · Content Browser widget for the ovui scene-tooling family · Copyright (c) 2025 NVIDIA Corporation.