Browse for folder doesn't always work

G

Guest

Hi, I'm using below function in a database on a network used by different
colleagues. For some users, the function works fine, for others, nothing
happens. Does this have to do with any setting in Windows? We are all running
Win Pro 2000 and Access 2000..

Private Type BrowseInfo
lngHwnd As Long
pIDLRoot As Long
pszDisplayName As Long
lpszTitle As Long
ulFlags As Long
lpfnCallback As Long
lParam As Long
iImage As Long
End Type

Private Const BIF_RETURNONLYFSDIRS = 1
Private Const MAX_PATH = 260

Private Declare Sub CoTaskMemFree Lib "ole32.dll" _
(ByVal hMem As Long)

Private Declare Function lstrcat Lib "Kernel32" _
Alias "lstrcatA" (ByVal lpString1 As String, _
ByVal lpString2 As String) As Long

Private Declare Function SHBrowseForFolder Lib "shell32" _
(lpbi As BrowseInfo) As Long

Private Declare Function SHGetPathFromIDList Lib "shell32" _
(ByVal pidList As Long, ByVal lpBuffer As String) As Long

Public Function BrowseForFolder(ByVal lngHwnd As Long, _
ByVal strPrompt As String) As String
On Error GoTo ehBrowseForFolder

Dim intNull As Integer
Dim lngIDList As Long, lngResult As Long
Dim strPath As String
Dim udtBI As BrowseInfo
'Set API properties (housed in a UDT)
With udtBI
.lngHwnd = lngHwnd
.lpszTitle = lstrcat(strPrompt, "")
.ulFlags = BIF_RETURNONLYFSDIRS
End With
'Display the browse folder...
lngIDList = SHBrowseForFolder(udtBI)
If lngIDList <> 0 Then
'Create string of nulls so it will fill in with the path
strPath = String(MAX_PATH, 0)
'Retrieves the path selected, places in the null character filled string
lngResult = SHGetPathFromIDList(lngIDList, strPath)
'Frees memory
Call CoTaskMemFree(lngIDList)
'Find the first instance of a null character,so we can get just the path
intNull = InStr(strPath, vbNullChar)
'Greater than 0 means the path exists...
If intNull > 0 Then
'Set the value
strPath = Left(strPath, intNull - 1)
End If
End If
'Return the path name
BrowseForFolder = strPath
Exit Function 'Abort
ehBrowseForFolder:
'Return no value
BrowseForFolder = Empty

End Function
 
B

Brendan Reynolds

Try commenting out your error handler, or replacing it with one that will
display information about the error, something like ...

ehBrowseForFolder:
MsgBox "Error " & Err.Number & ": " & Err.Description
Exit Function

As it stands at the moment, it's just going to fail silently, giving you no
clue as to what the problem is, which makes it rather difficult to fix it!
:)
 

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