mr_unreliable
Mon Jan 29 12:26:37 CST 2007
Ed, good luck with this one.
My guess is that your best bet would be to use one of the
Explorer "look-alikes" coded in vb which use the windows
treeview and listview controls controls to emulate explorer.
There is vb code for some of these "look-alikes", and you
could customize the vb code to get what you want.
If you ABSOLUTELY MUST do this via script, your best bet
is probably to use the "window object" provided by the
"shell.application" object. The idea here is to launch
explorer, and then modify its appearance to suit. Here
is some code (probably by mikHar?):
--- <snip> ---
<HEAD>
<HTA:APPLICATION>
</HEAD>
<HTML>
<BODY>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">
set shell = createobject("shell.application")
for each win in shell.windows
document.write "<pre>"
document.write _
"LocationURL = " & win.locationurl & "<br>" & _
"Window Type = " & typename(win) & "<br>" & _
"Document Type = " & typename(win.document) & "<br>"
if typename(win.document) = "IShellFolderViewDual" then
set f = win.document.folder
document.write " Folder = " & f.title & "<br>"
for each fi in f.items
document.write " Item = " & fi.name & "<br>"
next
end if
document.write "</pre>"
next
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
--- </snip> ---
As you can see, the win.document typename is either html
or "IShellFolderViewX". From there you can access various
window properties, but unfortunately -- exactly what properties
are available is hidden (i.e., not in the typelib). So,
(three things) you are going to have to guess the names of the
properties, then see if what you want is there, and finally
determine whether the property you want is read/write.
Good Luck.
cheers, jw
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Ed wrote:
> Can I use a script to open a specific folder and set its attributes: menu or
> not, toolbar or not, vertical and horizontal sizes, and vertical and
> horizontal position on the desktop? If so, can someone point me to an
> on-line resource that demonstrates this?
>
> Thank you.
> Ed
>
>