How would you apply your technique if you want to do it on a form, e.g. embed ability to show any file in the form's control?

Thanks again.

>If all you want to do is open an Explorer window I would use ShellExecute() in the Windows API. This will be a lot quicker and less resource intensive than using IE or the shell objects.
>
>There's a bunch of different ways you can accomplish this here:
>http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/shellapi/shellapi.asp
>
>GoUrl("c:\temp")
>
>

>****************************************************
>FUNCTION GoUrl
>******************
>***    Author: Rick Strahl
>***            (c) West Wind Technologies, 1996
>***   Contact: rstrahl@west-wind.com
>***  Modified: 03/14/96
>***  Function: Starts associated Web Browser
>***            and goes to the specified URL.
>***            If Browser is already open it
>***            reloads the page.
>***    Assume: Works only on Win95 and NT 4.0
>***      Pass: tcUrl  - The URL of the site or
>***                     HTML page to bring up
>***                     in the Browser
>***    Return: 2  - Bad Association (invalid URL)
>***            31 - No application association
>***            29 - Failure to load application
>***            30 - Application is busy
>***
>***            Values over 32 indicate success
>***            and return an instance handle for
>***            the application started (the browser)
>****************************************************
>LPARAMETERS tcUrl, tcAction, tcDirectory, tcParms
>
>IF EMPTY(tcUrl)
>   RETURN -1
>ENDIF
>IF EMPTY(tcAction)
>   tcAction = "OPEN"
>ENDIF
>IF EMPTY(tcDirectory)
>   tcDirectory = SYS(2023)
>ENDIF
>
>DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute ;
>    IN SHELL32.dll ;
>    INTEGER nWinHandle,;
>    STRING cOperation,;
>    STRING cFileName,;
>    STRING cParameters,;
>    STRING cDirectory,;
>    INTEGER nShowWindow
>IF EMPTY(tcParms)
>   tcParms = ""
>ENDIF
>
>DECLARE INTEGER FindWindow ;
>   IN WIN32API ;
>   STRING cNull,STRING cWinName
>
>RETURN ShellExecute(0,;
>                    tcAction,tcUrl,;
>                    tcParms,tcDirectory,1)
>

>
>Hope this helps,
>
>This also works for URLs and opening any documents like:
>
>

>GoUrl("http://www.west-wind.com/")
>
>*** Opens files in appropriate application
>GoUrl("c:\temp\worddoc.doc")
>GoUrl("c:\temp\worddoc.pdf")
>

>
>
>+++ Rick ---
>
>>I want to open a windows explorer in it's own window and navigate to a given directory.
>>
>>If this were internet explorer I would
>>
>>oIE = CREATEOBJECT("InternetExplorer.Application")
>>
>>oIE.Navigate("http://some web site/")
>>oIE.Visible = .t.
>>
>>
>>I want to do the same thing with internet explorer but can't find the class name to even experiment.
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Mike