Browse Folders

[Guest]

When I want to add a folder's contents to a library, it opens the "Browse
Folders" window with a default Explorer view. Anyone know how I can change
it to automatically open with the tree view to a certain subtree folder such
as c:\docu~\a\folder?

Any solutions are much appreciated.

 

[createwindow]

Dear Dirk,

You could create a new explorer.exe shortcut with "switches". But
that's not going to work when opened from whatever you are doing
above.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130510 is a good explanation of how
to open explorer at a folder of your choice.

Hope that helps.

CreateWindow
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[Guest]

Thanks, interesting...

When the browse folder dialog opens, what program or procedure does it call
to load the explorer tree? If only I knew that.

 

[createwindow]

Dear Dirk,

It depends on who wrote the program and what code they used to do
that. It varies even amongst Microsoft teams. Like the "MS Office"
team will preset "My Documents" or "Documents" (Vista). as a default.
Some other app may select "desktop". The function called can be a
standard "Shell" browse class (object actually) or the common dialog
classes in Windows, or another 3rd party "browser" code. I guess I'm
saying that you can't customise until you know which module is being
used. Certainly there are registry settings for messing with the
common dialog browse dialog. But only for "My Places" and other
standard things.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826214

Good luck,

CreateWindow