Open Windows Explorer in report view mode

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5 total messages Started by nicolasr Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:37

#16956

Author: nicolasr
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:37

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Hi,

from my application I want to open a Windows Explorer window showing
the contents of my log directory. I used ShellExecute to open the
Explorer:

ShellExecute(Handle, "open", "C:\\mylogs\\", NULL, "C:\\mylogs\\,
SW_SHOWNORMAL);

However, the default view mode is large icons. Does anyone know of a
way to tell Explorer to open in report view mode? Or to change the
view programmatically after the window opened?

thanks for any idea,
Nick

Re: Open Windows Explorer in report view mode

#16957

Author: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:56

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"nicolasr" <nicolasrNOSPAMATSIGNgmx.net> wrote in message
news:3e9dbef1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> Does anyone know of a way to tell Explorer to
> open in report view mode?

You have no control over that directly.

> Or to change the view programmatically after the window opened?

You have to first locate its HWND window (which you have to do manually),
then you can use Get/SetWindowLong() to adjust the window's style bits, ie:

    HWND hWnd = the listview handle;

    long style = GetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_STYLE);
    if( (style & LVS_TYPEMASK)  != LVS_REPORT )
    {
        style &= ~LVS_TYPEMASK;
        style |= LVS_REPORT;
        SetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_STYLE, style);
    }


Gambit

Re: Open Windows Explorer in report view mode

#16961

Author: Martin Golm
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 07:46

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nicolasr wrote:
> However, the default view mode is large icons. Does anyone know of a
> way to tell Explorer to open in report view mode? Or to change the
> view programmatically after the window opened?

Maybe this link would help: http://tinyurl.com/9pw6
Have a look at the "Command Line Switches for Windows Explorer" section.

Martin

Re: Open Windows Explorer in report view mode

#16887

Author: nicolasr
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 23:44

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thanks for the code example,
I will try it this way.

Nick

Re: Open Windows Explorer in report view mode

#16888

Author: nicolasr
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 23:49

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thanks for the reply. I read through the MSDN
article but there seems to be no switch for the
view mode of the list view. So I will try to change
it after starting Explorer.

thanks,
Nick

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