MikeG reported that he wasn’t able to get the Explore Tool in Delphi to work in XP. I tried it on XP today and it worked fine. It might be that something was missed. Here is a nice reference of the important bits from that screen cast:
Go to Tools / Configure Tools / Add
The Title can be anything you want. The program is Explorer (the .exe is optional) and the parameters must be /select, $edname (be sure you remember the comma!)
That should do it for you to open an explorer window with the currently edited file selected.
Update: More explorer parameters.
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Title=&Explore has a bad choice for accelerator since it clashes with &Editor options (at least it does on my decrepit Delphi 6 install). E&xplore would be better.
Nice tip though. By the way, what’s your recommended source for explorer.exe command line parameters. I remember looking for info on that quite a while ago and drawing a blank.
Seems like there were more parameters, but this is the best I have been able to find. Maybe the others were removed or are undocumented.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/152457
Explorer [/n] [/e] [(,)/root,
/n Opens a new single-pane window for the default
selection. This is usually the root of the drive
Windows is installed on. If the window is already
open, a duplicate opens.
/e Opens Windows Explorer in its default view.
/root,
/select,
Hi,
I have another idea, use $PATH($PROJECT)
see my old post:
http://www.blog.issamsoft.com/?q=en/node/10
or if you wish you can use $PATH($edname) to deal with single file.
@Issam: “$PATH($PROJECT)” would get you to the directory, but “/select, $edname” actually selects the current file in that directory. Very handy if you have a lot of files in your project or actually want to operate on that file.
@Jim: You are right, ?/select, $edname? is more handy, Updated.