We use the feature quite often in the support department to quickly
and easily get people to their sets and/or scripts. Control-Backslash,
Alt-F, L, Alt-O is significantly easier to walk someone through over the
phone than it is to explain how to type an unfamiliar word like AppData,
not to mention surrounding it with percent signs, and then talking them
through navigating their folder structure until we finally get where we
were going. So I've had quite a number of people use this feature, and
I've never had it fail. I'm willing to bet that Raul and Mike's
experience is the same. Or at least they've never said otherwise, and I
know they would.
I'll go one step further and tell you that I'm the one who added the
button to that dialog, and the only thing is does is a ShellExecute on
the same path destination that's listed in the edit box above the button.
It's literally just:
ShellExecute(NULL, NULL, *profilePath, NULL, *profilePath, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
where profilePath is, again, the text in the edit box above the button
I still contend that there's something specific to your machine that's
causing problems with Explorer. It would be interesting to write a
script (just VBScript, mind you -- not a Window-Eyes script) to do the
same thing, and execute it when this problem arises, and see what happens.
In VBScript, you could do:
userProfilePath = "c:\full path to profile dir"
Set shellObj = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
shellObj.ShellExecute userProfilePath, "", "", "open", 1
Aaron
On 4/10/2010 3:16 PM, Chip Orange wrote:
thanks Kevin.
What I'm getting out of this is that if there is a problem with the open
profile dir command button in the profiles dialog, no one would know because
I'm the only one using that way to get to my profile dir!!!
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Huber [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 10:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: how do you edit your xml files?
Hi:
I use Jamal's Go To Special Folder script to get to my default folder
quickly.
I just press the hotkey which brings up the list of "special" folders, and
second from the bottom is one called "Window-eyes default folder""
I press Enter on that oe and, Voila, I am there.
Kevin Huber
On 4/9/10, Chip Orange<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm curious: how to you go about editing your associated xml file for
a script?
I use the profile dialog of the WE control panel, and in there I press
the command button (alt-O) which opens the directory for the profile.
then, I can find and edit the xml file.
trouble is, there are times when the buttons fails to open a dir for
me, and I have to restart WE in order to make it work. GW can't
duplicate this, and I wonder, if others were needing to do this to
edit their xml files, then a few people should have run into this issue by
now?
So, do you have a different method of getting there, or have you hit
this problem?
thanks.
Chip
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