Find Dialog - Set the "Look In" path.....

[Crispin Wright]

I can use ShellExecute to set the look in path on the Find Files Dialog, but
I can't set it to either the "My Computer" item, or the "Local hard drives"
item. I tried passing it index values, CLSIDS, all manner of strings, i.e.
"C:\,D:\" "C:,D:" "(C:;D" "C:;D:" "Local hard drives" e.t.c e.t.c But
(obviously) I can't find the way....Any help may prevent hair loss - Thanks
heres the code im using (without decs as i'm sure you've all seen this before)

Debug.Print ShellExecute(Me.hwnd, _
"find", _
"(C:;D" & vbNullChar, _
vbNullString, _
vbNullString, _
SW_SHOWNORMAL)

[Klaus H. Probst]

Crispin,

Didn't check it, but have you tried separating elements with a null
(Chr$(0)) character? If you do that, also add two nulls to the end of the
string.
Some APIs work like that.


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"Crispin Wright" <crispin@freediver.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3b85277c$1@news.devx.com...
>
> I can use ShellExecute to set the look in path on the Find Files Dialog,
but
> I can't set it to either the "My Computer" item, or the "Local hard
drives"
> item. I tried passing it index values, CLSIDS, all manner of strings,
i.e.
> "C:\,D:\" "C:,D:" "(C:;D" "C:;D:" "Local hard drives" e.t.c e.t.c But
> (obviously) I can't find the way....Any help may prevent hair loss -
Thanks
> heres the code im using (without decs as i'm sure you've all seen this
before)
>
> Debug.Print ShellExecute(Me.hwnd, _
> "find", _
> "(C:;D" & vbNullChar, _
> vbNullString, _
> vbNullString, _
> SW_SHOWNORMAL)
>
>

[Klaus H. Probst]

Crispin,

Didn't check it, but have you tried separating elements with a null
(Chr$(0)) character? If you do that, also add two nulls to the end of the
string.
Some APIs work like that.


--
.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Klaus H. Probst, MVP
http://www.vbbox.com/


Please post/reply to the newsgroup(s)


"Crispin Wright" <crispin@freediver.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3b85277c$1@news.devx.com...
>
> I can use ShellExecute to set the look in path on the Find Files Dialog,
but
> I can't set it to either the "My Computer" item, or the "Local hard
drives"
> item. I tried passing it index values, CLSIDS, all manner of strings,
i.e.
> "C:\,D:\" "C:,D:" "(C:;D" "C:;D:" "Local hard drives" e.t.c e.t.c But
> (obviously) I can't find the way....Any help may prevent hair loss -
Thanks
> heres the code im using (without decs as i'm sure you've all seen this
before)
>
> Debug.Print ShellExecute(Me.hwnd, _
> "find", _
> "(C:;D" & vbNullChar, _
> vbNullString, _
> vbNullString, _
> SW_SHOWNORMAL)
>
>