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[cyberprof]

Does anyone know what exe is run when you do a 'Find File' in Windows 98

Cheers

J

 

[Bob26i]

Explorer.exe on my machine

 

[cyberprof]

I'll rephrase my question.

I want to be able to click a command button and the "find file" or "search for" program appears. The program that run when you click 'Start...Find...'

shell(??????)

Cheers

J

 

[johnwm]

You could always 'brew your own' using FindFirstFile and FindNextFile API. For use see:

http://www.mentalis.org/apilist/FindFirstFile.shtml

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[Cresby]

I thought find file had a name not dissimilar to find

using find to find it seems a bit incestuous not to mention legnthy but worth a try. Then run (and hide)

 

[Mosaic1]

You can bring up find files. Here's an MS article with one way. I tested it and it works.

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q183/9/03.asp&NoWebContent=1

If you want to just bring it up, in the Command event substitute the path you want to search to
Dir1.Path to make it simple.

 

[strongm]

Or you could try:
[tt]
Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
With New Shell32.Shell
.FindFiles
End With
End Sub
[/tt]
This requires that you make a reference to the Microsoft Shell Controls and Automation library (SHDOC401.DLL). And a word of warning: the library has a dependence of Shell32.dll; this needs to be version 4.71 or later (W98, Me, 2000, XP). The correct version may be installed on W95 and/or NT4 if IE4's Active Desktop components were ever installed

 

[cyberprof]

thanks strongm, excellent piece of code, does just what I want.

cheers

J

 

[Cresby]

FIND.exe is a DOS command - oh well.