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Drive Combo, Folder and File List Controls
By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience ...
James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience ...
Introduction
There are three controls in VB that allow you to display the drives, folders and files on the users PC, so that you can create your own open dialog, or explorer, albeit in a Windows 3.1 style... If you want to display the files and folders in a windows 9x style, you can take a look at this example program. However, it is very complex!
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When I try to set the drive list's drive back to the previous one, it shows me that drive in the dir/file boxes, but the drive selector remains at the drive the user selected. Any way to fix it? (Using WinXP)
I am a beginner, and I found your article VERY easy to use, and it saved me alot of time on my project! Thank you again, and I have a small possibly un-nessary, but usefull addition to one line of your code:
On your last page, if you were to change the line as follows, your message would tell you what drive it was that you clicked on that was inaccessable:
Case 68
MsgBox Drive1.Drive & " drive not accessable"
' Switch back to the previosu drive
Drive1.Drive = OldDrive
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