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How to find the full path of a specific folder
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From
11/05/2002 10:07:15
Alex Feldstein
Florida, United States
 
 
To
11/05/2002 08:54:11
Kouakou Martin
Amd Developpement
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Re: How to find the full path of a specific folder
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00655362
Message ID:
00655373
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16
>most of vfp functions are used to find a file, file's full path but never the full path of a specific folder.
>i'm trying to creat a shortcut on the quick launch taskbar. so i would like to find the "quick launch" folder to perform that operation.
>how can i do it?

You can try using WSH:
oWsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
cDesktopDir = oWsh.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
oLnk = oWsh.CreateShortcut(cDesktopDir + "\\Shortcut to Notepad.lnk")
oLnk.TargetPath = oWsh.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%windir%") + "\notepad.exe"
oLnk.Save()


Alex Feldstein, MCP, Microsoft MVP
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