JCL Help:OpenFolder

 JCL Help: OpenFolder Function

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Summary

Opens a folder in Explorer.

Pascal

 function OpenFolder(const Path: string; Parent: THandle = 0; Explore: Boolean = False): Boolean;

Parameters

Parameters	Description
Parent: THandle = 0	Handle of the window to serve as the parent of any dialogs displayed.
Folder	Path of the folder to open. You can either specify a fully qualified path or a relative one, which will be relative to the current directory.

Return Value

If the function succeeds the result is True, otherwise it is False. You can call GetLastError to get more detailed information about the reason of failure.

Description

The OpenFolder function opens Explorer with the specified Folder as the root of the namespace (root of the lefthand treeview).

See Also

OpenSpecialFolder

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JclShell

Donator

Marcel van Brakel

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