activex windows explorer control

[Benjamin_]

Hi All

I would like to have a windows explorer control on my VI Front Panel and not a seperate pop-up window.

How can I implement this?

I have found some examples with a windows internet explorer embedded in a Front Panel as an activeX control but I don't know how I can call an windows explorer/file browser.

For a better understanding I enclosend a printscreen of what I mean.

Merry Christmas 😉

[zou]

What you have in the picture is an OpenFileDialog window.  It's designed to be an seperate dialog window.  Not sure if you can use it in an ActiveX control.

[smercurio_fc]

As stated, that's a dialog window, so you can't embed it as an ActiveX control. What are you trying to do? Do you want to have an Explorer-like control? If so, there's a few of these on the market. If you Google for them you'll find them. For example: http://www.ssware.com/fileview/fileview.htm

[Benjamin_]

I would like to show the user an embedded file dialog to open a file but I'll need it just once so I cannot spend money on that.

[Wetzer]

Maybee you should look in the .NET Direction as well.

Basically what you need can be done with a ListView Control that is part of Windows.System.Forms:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s2edxtd5%28vs.71%29.aspx

The Drawback will be that you have to write the Code that populates the Control yourself.

In addition i found this Control:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/VbNetExpTree.aspx

Since you dont whant to pay anything you should look out for Open Source Software

Best Regards

Moritz M.