Re: Open Directory using Win32:GUI?

Righto... I found some stuff, but not exactly what I was after
From the Documentation...
BrowseForFolder( OPTIONS ) Displays the standard ``Browse For Folder'' dialog box. Returns the selected item's name, or undef if no item was selected or an error occurred. Note that BrowseForFolder must be called as a standalone function, not as a method. Example:

        $folder = Win32::GUI::BrowseForFolder(
                -root => "C:\\Program Files",
                -includefiles => 1,
        );
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other options are... -computeronly, -domainonly, -driveonly, -editbox, -folderonly, -includefiles, -owner, -printeronly, -root, -title
What I was actually thinking of was

$ret = GUI::GetSaveFileName(
    -title  => "Save your newly generated Mail Merge Document.",
    -file   => "\0" . " " x 256,
    -filter => [
        "Word documents (*.doc)" => "*.doc", 
        "All files", "*.*",
    ],
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With another option in there, but I can't find it anywhere. Oh well, I am sure that browse for folder will work. Let me know how you get on.
Regards, Gerard.

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Re: Re: Open Directory using Win32:GUI? by $code or die (Deacon) on Jan 10, 2002 at 15:11 UTC
That's strange, last time I wanted to do this I had to use Win32::FileOp from Jan Krynicky. Maybe it was added to Win32::GUI in a recent version or I just overlooked the docs before. It's not bad though, Win32::FileOp has some other nice functions for deleting\recyclying files etc. Worth a look. update: Oh, you can use Win32::FileOp::BrowseForFolder() in a console script and avoid the overhead of loading Win32::GUI. Simon Flack ($code or die) `$,=reverse'"ro_';s,$,\$,;s,$,lc ref sub{},e;$, =~y'_"' ';eval"die";print $_,lc substr$@,0,3;`	[reply]
Thanks, Gerard! by mr_dont (Beadle) on Jan 11, 2002 at 04:52 UTC
YES, Win32::GUI::BrowseForFolder is perfect! That is the widget I am looking for... Thank you Gerard! It was really nice of you to help me out with this widget. I often find when I am learning a new set of GUI widgets/methods, I know that a certain call to a widget exists (because I've seen the widget!), but I have trouble finding the actual name of the method... I owe you one! Mr. Don't	[reply]