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14/11/2000 18:04:27
 
 
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14/11/2000 17:42:27
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00441864
Message ID:
00441904
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9
>>That makes it open in internet explorer, but how can i make it open up in windows nt explorer?
>>Thanks,
>>Ryan
>
>Read, Trey, read... :(
>
>Forget what I said, use the ShellExecute API call instead.
>This is a program I got off West Wind - I call it ShellEx.prg
LPARAMETER lcLink, lcAction, lcParms
>
>lcAction = IIF(EMPTY(lcAction), "Open", lcAction)
>lcParms = IIF(EMPTY(lcParms), "", lcParms)
>
>DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute ;
>    IN SHELL32.dll ;
>    INTEGER nWinHandle, ;
>    STRING cOperation, ;
>    STRING cFileName, ;
>    STRING cParameters, ;
>    STRING cDirectory, ;
>    INTEGER nShowWindow
>
>DECLARE INTEGER FindWindow ;
>   IN WIN32API ;
>   STRING cNull,STRING cWinName
>
>RETURN ShellExecute(FindWindow(0, _SCREEN.caption), ;
>                    lcAction, lcLink, ;
>                    lcParms, SYS(2023), 1)
Call it for this case with
>ShellEx("c:\directory","Explore")

You work too hard...there's a _shellexecute class in the FFC! And if you're reasonably certain that you've got a current revision OS, you can also use Shell.Application:

oSH = CREATEOBJ('Shell.Application')
oSH.Open("C:\Directory")
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