Open a folder on desktop
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| How do I open a folder from within a program? By this I mean in the same way that a web browser has a button to click to 'Open Download Folder' and this folder will then open on the desktop. I know I can run 'explorer.exe' with the EXECFILE command - but I'm not sure how to get it to open a specified folder. Would this be a Commandline issue? Any help welcome..Thanks. |
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| Have you used the "RequestDir" and "RequestFile" commands in blitzplus? |
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| Explorer "c:\folder" should work.(put double quotes around the folder name to account for spaces in the name) |
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| Requestdir will work for me - Thanks (I missed that command somehow) xlsior - I'm not sure how I would pass "C:\folder" when running explorer.exe with execfile. Or is there another way to do this that I'm unaware of (this is very likely!) Anyway - thanks for the responses both. |
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| something like execfile("explorer folder"); if the path contains spaces do execfile("explorer "+chr(34)+"path"+chr(34)) edit: you could also do execfile(chr(34)+"path"+chr(34)), but then the path has to end with a slash or backslash, depending on the format you are using. Execfile basically does the same as Win-R and typing in whatever you pass to Execfile. Last edited 2011 |
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| I'll try that out - many thanks to all for the help. |
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