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almmatt
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9 years ago
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Check folder path in Explorer window

I have read in the community it can be difficult to automate Windows Explorer due to different operating systems. My task is to use an operation in my application to locate a file or folder on disk u...
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    djadhav
    9 years ago

    You can try this. It uses the FindChild method to look within all Sys process which will include all Explorer processes.

     

    SUB TestSol2
  DIM tst, PropNames, PropValues
  ' Creates arrays of property names and values
  PropArray = Array("Name", "Visible")
  ValuesArray = Array("Window('*', 'Music', 1)", "True")  'This will change with folder name we are looking for
  
  SET tst = Sys.FindChild(PropArray, ValuesArray, 10)
  IF tst.Exists THEN
    Log.Message("The folder was found open in exlporer")
  ELSE
    Log.Error("The folder was not found open in exlporer")
  END IF
  Delay(1000)
END SUB
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almmatt
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I'm finally back on my automation project, so I was able to test out your solution djadhav

 

Looking at my Object Browser, Explorer has two instances, Sys.Process("Explorer") and Sys.Process("Explorer", "2"). If I use your example of

Sys.Process("explorer").Window("*","Tutorial Folder", 1).Exists

It is unable to find the window, as it exists under the 2nd iteration of the Explorer process. I cannot get a wildcard to work with this approach:

Sys.Process("explorer", "*").Window("*","Tutorial Folder", -1).Exists

Any Ideas?

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djadhav
Regular Contributor
9 years ago

You can try this. It uses the FindChild method to look within all Sys process which will include all Explorer processes.

 

SUB TestSol2
  DIM tst, PropNames, PropValues
  ' Creates arrays of property names and values
  PropArray = Array("Name", "Visible")
  ValuesArray = Array("Window('*', 'Music', 1)", "True")  'This will change with folder name we are looking for
  
  SET tst = Sys.FindChild(PropArray, ValuesArray, 10)
  IF tst.Exists THEN
    Log.Message("The folder was found open in exlporer")
  ELSE
    Log.Error("The folder was not found open in exlporer")
  END IF
  Delay(1000)
END SUB
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    djadhav
    Regular Contributor
    9 years ago

    Change this:

     

    ValuesArray = new Array(Window("*", "Folder Name", -1), "True");

    to

     

    ValuesArray = new Array('Window("*", "Folder Name", -1)', "True");

    The quotes were missing.

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    almmatt
    Contributor
    9 years ago

    djadhav - Thanks for your code snippet. I have attempted to convert this over to JScript to use within my project, but my trouble lies within the assignment of the ValuesArray var. I get a runtime error of "object expected".

     

    Here is my converted script:

    function findExplorerChild()
{

var tst, PropNames, PropValues;

  //Creates arrays of property names and values
  PropArray = new Array("Name", "Visible");
  
  //This will change with folder name we are looking for
  ValuesArray = new Array(Window("*", "Folder Name", -1), "True"); //This line generates an error at runtime 
  
  tst = Sys.FindChild(PropArray, ValuesArray, 10);
  
  if (tst.Exists)
  {
    Log.Message("The folder was found open in explorer");
  }
  else
  {
    Log.Error("The folder was not found open in explorer");
  }
  Delay(1000);
}

     

    I have tried generalizing an object, such as "Sys.Process("*").Window("*", "Folder Name", -1), "True"); but that doesn't work either. Any ideas?

     

    Again, thanks for your help.