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Garrett

Codescript, Dragonsphere or anyone else know of a way to send an
@sendmsg() or an @lib() to change the views of an explorer window?

Such as DETAILS, SMALL ICONS, LARGE ICONS, and LIST.

And or, find out what view an explorer window currently using?

Thanks,
-Garrett

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Couldn't you link to it with DDE? Smile

Garrett · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 2:32 am Post subject:

I've never had much success with DDE. In fact, I gave up on trying use
DDE long ago. It was too unreliable, and trying to find documentation
on programs that allowed DDE control was almost nill.

Right now, I'm using the browser element from VDS on my dialog, and
displaying a few folders. But I'd like to find out what view they had when
they close this program, so when they start it again, I can set the view
back to what they had last.

Can I use DDE for this?

-Garrett

CodeScript · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 3:43 am Post subject:

Hi Garrett

This is already there in the Table control API package.
http://www.vdsworld.com/index.php?page=download&fileid=341
This is a small snipplet taken for testing and it works here on XP.
Just click start and place the cursor over the the folder view
within 2 seconds and see the change.
For the different style constants you need to refer msdn for
"List View Window Styles" LVS_LIST,LVS_ICON so on
AND
you can get their corresponding values from
Visual DialogScript API Constant Reference or elsewhere.
http://www.vdsworld.com/index.php?page=download&fileid=332

NB: I don't know the internals of the XP Thumbnails style
It is different from a simple listview style.

BTW this thread belongs to Advanced section. Just joking Wink

I am not a moderator and should not tell this. Please don't get upset.

Garrett · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 4:03 am Post subject:

I wasn't sure if I should actually post this in the advanced section or not. I
did consider starting this in there though.

I'll take a look at that code and the references you've noted. Just having
the references would have been enough to get me going in the right
direction. Before you posted, I didn't even have a direction to take.

Thank you kindly for your help. Smile

-Garrett