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exdunepilot
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8 years ago
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Highlight All Files within a Folder in Standard Windows Open File Dialog

Our application launches a standard windows open file dialog popup.  However, we load ALL the files within a folder so I cannot use TC's OpenFile() method.  Trying to use a combo of namemapped object...
  • HKosova's avatar
    8 years ago

    The Open File dialog accepts multiple file names as a space-separated list of quoted items:

    "C:\MyFile1.txt" "C:\MyFile2.txt"

    OpenFile() sets the dialog's file name input as is, so you can try the following:

    // JavaScript/JScript
    dlgOpen.OpenFile("\"C:\\MyFile1.txt\" \"C:\\MyFile2.txt\"");

     

    Alternatively, you can use the Ctrl+A shortcut to select all files in the Open dialog:

    var strFolder = "C:\\MyFolder\\Subfolder\\";
    var dlgOpen = ...;
    // Navigate to the folder var fileInput = dlgOpen.Window("ComboBoxEx32").FindChild("WndClass", "Edit", 2); fileInput.SetText(strFolder); fileInput.Keys("[Enter]");
    // Select all files & open dlgOpen.FindChild("WndClass", "SHELLDLL_DefView", 5).Keys("^a"); dlgOpen.Window("Button", "&Open").Click();

    This was tested on Windows 7. Other Windows versions can have different object names for the Open dialog elements, so adjust accordingly.