[python-win32] Find Target
Rickey, Kyle W
Kyle.Rickey at bakerhughes.com
Thu Apr 3 20:04:26 CEST 2008
Tim/Scott, thanks for your replies that is exactly what I needed! :bow:
Thanks for both of your times.
-Kyle Rickey
-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:44 PM
To: Python-Win32 List
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Find Target
Rickey, Kyle W wrote:
> Tim, thanks for your patience :). I think I'm still miscommunicating
to
> you what I need to do. Let's throw the whole shortcut idea out the
> window and start from scratch.
>
> My code generates a file, I want to open the directory (which is
known)
> containing that file and select it. Since I can open the directory
with
> os.startfile(), do I still need to get the hwnd of the explorer window
> and get the listctrl etc., or is there a simpler way to select a file?
>
You're in luck! There IS a simple solution to the problem as you just
stated it:
explorer /select,c:\windows\notepad.exe
For future reference, here's a knowledge base article that describes the
command-line parameters to explorer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130510
--
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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