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Name of Manually Selected File in Directory


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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

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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.

Common sense plays a role in the basics of understanding AutoIt... If you're lacking in that, do us all a favor, and step away from the computer.

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

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