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IBOL
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Posted: 14th Feb 2018 16:07 Edited at: 14th Feb 2018 16:08
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My game lets users create art. I would like to allow users on windows to open file explorer and look at their art on their computers.

There are a lot of threads and apparent workarounds, but none of them appear to do this seemingly-simple thing.

I can open websites and run other apps, (openbrowser() , viewfile()) , but i can't figure out how to do this.

HELP?!

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Posted: 14th Feb 2018 16:36 Edited at: 14th Feb 2018 16:39
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You could try calling RunApp( "explorer", "/n,c:\temp" )

You start the explorer app and tell it what directory or file to look at.... Ive not actually tried this though and im at work so could give it a go later... Obviously, you need the path of the folder you want to look at instead of "c:\ temp" above
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Posted: 14th Feb 2018 16:39 Edited at: 14th Feb 2018 16:46
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or you can use windows api and a c++ project
this will make a dll that you can use in tier1 basic.
https://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/guides/14_plugins.htm
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/
https://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/windows/desktop/ff818516(v=vs.85).aspx
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Posted: 14th Feb 2018 16:46 Edited at: 14th Feb 2018 16:47
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Yes or you can use my plugin
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Posted: 14th Feb 2018 17:48
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Hi, Madbit, I saw your plugin, but i wasn't sure which command would actually do that. And also, does it use the built-in windows file explorer, or something else (like it's own interface). I want it to be native so users can drag and drop into twitter or something.

Bengismo, RunApp( "explorer.exe", a$ ) that actually works! But it opens to "this pc/documents" . i tried several variations of the path i want, but i couldn't get it to open anywhere else.

Thanks all!

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ChooseFileDialog would be the right thing. It uses the native open dialog of Windows. I don't know if you can pull something out of it by drag-and-drop.
For what you're planning to do, I think that explorer is the best idea.
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Posted: 14th Feb 2018 18:39 Edited at: 14th Feb 2018 18:44
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RunApp( "explorer.exe", a$ )

This works absolutely fine and WILL open in any directory you like but it needs backwards slashes in the file path c::\path\path2\path3 is fine but c:/name/name isnt!!

If you use / slashes the path isnt valid and so it defualts to the my documents folder

So...try this code



Ive managed to open any directory I want to....

Theres also GetWritePath(), GetCurrentDir() and GetDocumentsPath() to get the standard directories without having to hardcode anything

plus if you use
a$ = "/n,"+a$ - you can open multiple explorer windows
a$ = "/select,"+a$ - you can open the explorer window and even select the filename you just saved
There are other options too...

No need for plugins to do this! lol (...funny how some edits have occurred since I posted)
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Posted: 14th Feb 2018 20:09
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wooo hooooo!!!

that does it for sure, thank you so much!
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