Vista - Common File Dialog for Vista

10-17-2008

I'm on 64-bit and I've found that the old MSComDlg.CommonDialog object
can only be invoked under 32-bit. I can use the Word dialog but of
course that requires installing Word, and creating the
Word.Application object is slow.

What I'd like to know is how (or if) I can invoke a file-open/browse
dialog with some open source object via VBScript. Clearly nearly every
program does this, including open source (Firefox, FileZilla, etc.)

I guess the other thing would be a Windows API wrapper class. Anyway,
does anyone have something like this? Thanks.

10-18-2008

On Oct 17, 3:16*pm, jjs...@xxxxxx wrote:

Quote:

> I'm on 64-bit and I've found that the old MSComDlg.CommonDialog object
> can only be invoked under 32-bit. I can use the Word dialog but of
> course that requires installing Word, and creating the
> Word.Application object is slow.
>
> What I'd like to know is how (or if) I can invoke a file-open/browse
> dialog with some open source object via VBScript. Clearly nearly every
> program does this, including open source (Firefox, FileZilla, etc.)
>
> I guess the other thing would be a Windows API wrapper class. Anyway,
> does anyone have something like this? Thanks.

I haven't tried this in Vista, but using IE should work:

http://members.cox.net/tglbatch/wsh/ChooseFile.vbs.txt

The one thing that will not work in IE 7 is the line that reads ...

IEApp.fullscreen = True

Comment that out.

Tom Lavedas
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10-17-2008	#1 (permalink)
jjsonp n/a posts	Common File Dialog for Vista I'm on 64-bit and I've found that the old MSComDlg.CommonDialog object can only be invoked under 32-bit. I can use the Word dialog but of course that requires installing Word, and creating the Word.Application object is slow. What I'd like to know is how (or if) I can invoke a file-open/browse dialog with some open source object via VBScript. Clearly nearly every program does this, including open source (Firefox, FileZilla, etc.) I guess the other thing would be a Windows API wrapper class. Anyway, does anyone have something like this? Thanks.
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10-18-2008	#2 (permalink)
Tom Lavedas n/a posts	Re: Common File Dialog for Vista On Oct 17, 3:16*pm, jjs...@xxxxxx wrote: Quote: > I'm on 64-bit and I've found that the old MSComDlg.CommonDialog object > can only be invoked under 32-bit. I can use the Word dialog but of > course that requires installing Word, and creating the > Word.Application object is slow. > > What I'd like to know is how (or if) I can invoke a file-open/browse > dialog with some open source object via VBScript. Clearly nearly every > program does this, including open source (Firefox, FileZilla, etc.) > > I guess the other thing would be a Windows API wrapper class. Anyway, > does anyone have something like this? Thanks. I haven't tried this in Vista, but using IE should work: http://members.cox.net/tglbatch/wsh/ChooseFile.vbs.txt The one thing that will not work in IE 7 is the line that reads ... IEApp.fullscreen = True Comment that out. Tom Lavedas -------------------
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