Name of Manually Selected File in Directory

[RobertBedrosian]

I have a really awful way of getting the name of a selected file in a directory.

Surely, there's a better way, but I can't find it in Help. Help, please.

Func GetFileName()

Send("{APPSKEY}")

Sleep(200)

Send("m")

Sleep(200)

Send("^{c}")

Send("{ESC}")

$filename = ClipGet()

; MsgBox(0, "", $filename)

EndFunc ;==>GetFileName

[saywell]

You haven't explained the circumstances, but would FileOpenDialog help?

William

[SmOke_N]

If you're using Win XP ( unsure about Vista ), your explorer and desktop are SysListview32's.

Which means you can access them via the _GUICtrlListView_* functions. And ultimately find which were highlighted and get the text from that.

On Win 7 ( the machine I have access to now ), my desktop is SysListview32, however, explorer is DirectUIHWND.

I'm unsure off hand how to automate that, maybe if you did some research into it, you could find a cleaner method than what you're using now along the lines of what I said about the _GUICtrlListview* functions.

[Ascend4nt]

Check out the combined function KaFu made called '_WindowsExplorer_ExtractSelectedDirAndFiles' in

[Alphacharly]

Hi

I made a gui for registering ocx/dll files.

The File Open dialogue box opens up giving only extension names *.ocx or *.dll

Is this of any help/idea?

rgds

test Registering file .au3

[RobertBedrosian]

Check out the combined function KaFu made called '_WindowsExplorer_ExtractSelectedDirAndFiles' in

Thanks Ascend4nt for your kindness. That was JUST what I was looking for.