https://forge.codesys.com/forge/talk/Engineering/thread/6266fafe4d/2020-02-27T14:49:17.649000ZRecent posts to ui.browse_directory_dialog2020-02-27T14:49:17.649000Z2020-02-27T14:49:17.649000Zfrancoishttps://forge.codesys.com/u/francois/https://forge.codesys.comf8edc4166cc2cbaf2e5c5363d3d1ade77e5f1861

<div class="markdown_content"><p>Thanks for your answer!</p> <p>Specifying the Desktop folder instead of MyComputer worked perfectly.</p> <p>Regards</p></div>

2020-02-27T14:49:17.058000Z2020-02-27T14:49:17.058000ZAnonymoushttps://forge.codesys.com/u/*anonymous/https://forge.codesys.com9d2120c64b010eee07e637106c4b01375273d13e

<div class="markdown_content"><p><em>Originally created by:</em> M.Schaber</p> <p>Hello,</p> <p>I did test it with several pathes (on local harddisk and on a network drive) and it worked.</p> <p>It did not work, however, when trying an UNC path ("\servername\share\some\directory") or a path to a directory which does not exist, in both cases, it did show "My Computer".</p> <p>Does your project path directory actually exist?</p> <p>Internally, we're just using the .NET Framework <a class="" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.folderbrowserdialog%28v=vs.100%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">FolderBrowserDialog</a>, so the (a little bit weird) rules for its "SelectedPath" property also apply to the "path" parameter of our browse_directory_dialog function.</p> <p>One of the <a class="" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.folderbrowserdialog.rootfolder%28v=vs.100%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">Rules is:</a> </p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Zitat:</strong><br/> <span>[...]</span>as long as SelectedPath is an absolute path that is a subfolder of RootFolder (or more accurately, points to a subfolder of the shell namespace represented by RootFolder)</p> </blockquote> <p><a class="" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.specialfolder%28v=vs.100%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">different values</a> for this parameter:</p> <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">__future__</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">print_function</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">System</span> <span class="err"> </span> <span class="err"> </span> <span class="n">res</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">system</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ui</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">browse_directory_dialog</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"Choose a directory"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">path</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="se">\\\\</span><span class="s2">server01</span><span class="se">\\</span><span class="s2">SomeShare</span><span class="se">\\</span><span class="s2">some</span><span class="se">\\</span><span class="s2">path"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">root_folder</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">System</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Environment</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SpecialFolder</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Desktop</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"The user did choose: '</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s2">'"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">res</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> <p>This value seemed to work also for network shares, but still not for non-existing pathes.</p></div>

2020-02-27T14:49:15.472000Z2020-02-27T14:49:15.472000Zfrancoishttps://forge.codesys.com/u/francois/https://forge.codesys.comcb4b89560e028a4c4696871945558ec86e15a33b

<div class="markdown_content"><p>Hello,</p> <p>Is it possible that the path attribute of this method has no effect?<br/> In the code:</p> <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><span class="n">filepath</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">system</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">ui</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">browse_directory_dialog</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="ss">"Select a directory"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">path</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">projectPath</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> <p>Where projectPath is a valid string:</p> <div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><span class="k">C</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="err">\</span><span class="n">Users</span><span class="err">\</span><span class="n">francois</span><span class="err">\</span><span class="n">Documents</span><span class="err">\</span><span class="n">Software</span><span class="err">\</span><span class="n">Codesys</span><span class="err">\</span><span class="n">project</span> </pre></div> <p>The prompt has "My computer" selected.</p> <p>Thanks!</p></div>