You might consider shipping in your main application, and a second diagnostic application with a menu option to launch explorer in the desired path. I hide the launch menu option as a right click of the about form.
Launching the explorer window the way it's done below, will start it as a child of the main thread, instead of a child of your application. It starts faster this way too. [code] #DEFINE CSIDL_APPDATA 0x001a #DEFINE CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA 0x0023 #DEFINE CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA 0x001c #DEFINE CSIDL_PERSONAL 0x0005 #DEFINE CSIDL_MYPICTURES 0x0027 DECLARE INTEGER SHGetFolderPath IN SHFolder.dll AS SHGetFolderPath; INTEGER hwndOwner, ; INTEGER nFolder, ; INTEGER hToken, ; INTEGER dwFlags, ; STRING@ pszPath DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN Shell32.dll AS ShellExecute; INTEGER nWinHandle, ; STRING cOperation, ; STRING cFileName, ; STRING cParameters, ; STRING cDirectory, ; INTEGER nShowWindow cPath = GetAppDataLocation() cCmd = cPath cParams = "" ShellExecute(0, "open", cCmd, cParams, cPath, 1) PROCEDURE GetPicturesLocation Local cPath, nrtn, nhwnd, ntkn, nflags STORE 0 TO nrtn, nhwnd, ntkn, nflags cPath = REPLICATE(CHR(0),254) nrtn = SHGetFolderPath(nhwnd, CSIDL_MYPICTURES, ntkn, nflags, @cPath) cPath = ALLTRIM(cPath, CHR(0)) RETURN cPath ENDPROC PROCEDURE GetDocumentsLocation Local cPath, nrtn, nhwnd, ntkn, nflags STORE 0 TO nrtn, nhwnd, ntkn, nflags cPath = REPLICATE(CHR(0),254) nrtn = SHGetFolderPath(nhwnd, CSIDL_PERSONAL, ntkn, nflags, @cPath) cPath = ALLTRIM(cPath, CHR(0)) RETURN cPath ENDPROC PROCEDURE GetAppDataLocation Local cPath, nrtn, nhwnd, ntkn, nflags STORE 0 TO nrtn, nhwnd, ntkn, nflags cPath = REPLICATE(CHR(0),254) nrtn = SHGetFolderPath(nhwnd, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, ntkn, nflags, @cPath) cPath = ALLTRIM(cPath, CHR(0)) RETURN cPath ENDPROC [/code] -----Original Message----- From: MB Software Solutions, LLC Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:15 PM I've got a VFP9SP1 app that's storing data by default in the AppData folder (C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\MBABCOCK\APPLICATION DATA\EMAILEXTRACT2009\). However, this folder isn't visible to the user, so it's not easy for them to retrieve files created there. I'm thinking I'll use a different folder, but I just wondered why this isn't visible to the end-user? Perhaps this folder is meant for internal-use data and not for the user to go meddling???? ;-) _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/000701ca271c$19d864e0$4d892e...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
