Description
Here's a simple little demo that takes a basic concept, stuffing the keyboard
buffer of a console application, and builds it into an incredibly poweful CDW
command line utility. With a Sub Main that amounts to perhaps 15 or 20
lines of code, we build a tool that displays a "browse for folder" dialog, then
upon exit it issues the appropriate changedrive and changedirectory
commands to the parent process.
There are lots of hidden gems in this sample, so by all means dig through it.
Besides the several ways it offers to call the folder browse dialogs, you'll
also add another handy method to your console application arsenal.
Published
This sample hasn't been published anywhere except here on this website, but first rights to such publication are jealously guarded - you have been warned. <g>
APIs Usage
This sample uses the following API calls:
| Module |
Library |
Function |
| MCDW.bas |
kernel32
user32
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ExitProcess
GetShortPathName
GetVersionEx
RtlMoveMemory
EnumThreadWindows
GetWindowLong |
| MFolderBrowse.bas |
kernel32
ole32
shell32
user32 |
GetVersionEx
LocalAlloc
LocalFree
lstrcpyA
lstrlenA
RtlMoveMemory
CoTaskMemFree
SHBrowseForFolder
SHGetPathFromIDList
SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
SHSimpleIDListFromPath
SendMessage |
| MKeyStuff.bas |
kernel32
user32
|
CloseHandle
GetStdHandle
RtlMoveMemory
WriteConsoleInput
MapVirtualKey
VkKeyScan |
Don't see what you're looking for? Here's a
complete API cross-reference.
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Please, enjoy and learn from this sample. Include its code within your own projects, if you wish. But, in order to insure only the most recent code is available to all, I ask that you
don't share the sample by any form of mass distribution.
Download KeyStuff.zip,
49Kb, Last Updated: Thursday, July 29, 2010
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See Also
The following resources may also be of interest:
- Console - Full console application development support from within VB5/6 IDE.
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