Ilogic to open document directory and select the document file

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am using an easy Ilogic rule, which opens the directory of the open document via explorer.exe

If ThisDoc.Path IsNot "" Then
Shell("explorer.exe " & ThisDoc.Path,vbNormalFocus)
Else
MessageBox.Show("Cannot open the file directory", "iLogic")
End If

 But when I have a lot of files in the document directory, its pretty complicated to find the document file. Is there any possibility to make explorer highlight (or select) the used document file? I tried the standard functions for both explorer.exe and VBAs Shell, but it did not work.

Thank you for help!

[MechMachineMan · Accepted solution]

Pretty sure there is.

Since this functionality isn't specific to inventor, 2 better places to look are StackOverflow and MSDN.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Thank you, you were right.
It was solved by this post at stackoverflow.com

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31689802/launching-windows-explorer-and-highlighting-a-file

But you have to write the command after Shell into brackets.

[dusan.naus.trz]

It took me a little bit then I understood. I give the whole solution to others.

Not only do you have to insert Select as an explorer, but when I used & ThisDoc.PathAndFileName (True) it bothered him in the path (True) it couldn't evaluate it, but true is needed because of the end that defines shortened and it already works

filepath = ThisDoc.PathAndFileName(True)

If filepath IsNot "" Then
Shell("explorer.exe /Select," & filepath, vbNormalFocus)
Else
MessageBox.Show("Cannot open the file directory", "iLogic")
End If