AutoPlay Media Studio 9

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Make a Document Browser

As an example, we will create an application that has the user select a folder on his drive, and then populates a listbox object with all of the *.doc files within that directory. The user clicks on a file in the listbox object, and clicks the "Open" button to open the document.

1.Create a project with one listbox object, and two button objects.
2.Label Button1 "Load" and Button2 "Open".
3.Insert the following code into the On Click event for Button1:

--Disable listbox Updating

ListBox.SetUpdate("ListBox1", false);

 

--Get the desired folder to browse

folder = Dialog.FolderBrowse("Open Folder", "C:\\");

 

--populate a table with all the .doc files

file = File.Find(folder, "*.doc", false, false, nil);

 

--do the following for each file:

for j,file_path in pairs(file) do

   --add the item to the listbox, with the name visible and path as data

   ListBox.AddItem("ListBox1", String.SplitPath(file_path).Filename, file_path);

end

 

--Allow the listbox to display the updated content

ListBox.SetUpdate("ListBox1", true);

4.Insert the following code into the On Click event for Button2:

selected = ListBox.GetSelected("ListBox1");

for j,k in pairs(selected) do

   File.Open(ListBox.GetItemData("ListBox1", k),"", SW_SHOWNORMAL);

end


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