ni.com is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance.

Some services may be unavailable at this time. Please contact us for help or try again later.

Home Community Example Programs Example Code Document

Example Code

cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
ASK A QUESTION

Display all Folders and Shortcuts in a Directory Using LabVIEW

by:
‎03-09-2011 12:46 PM
Last Edited by: Member Example_Scrubber_Nian ‎08-14-2017 08:56 PM

Products and Environment

This section reflects the products and operating system used to create the example.

To download NI software, including the products shown below, visit ni.com/downloads.

    Software

  • LabVIEW

Code and Documents

Attachment

Download All

Overview

This example allows users to select a directory and display all of the folders and shortcuts within that directory.


Description
This example displays the shortcuts and folders within the directory as well as the absolute locations (resolved paths) of the folders and shortcuts. This example can be used to simply show the user a list of all folders or shortcuts within a directory.  It can also be modified to programmatically select every folder and shortcut within the directory and perform some sort of task on each.  For example, it can open all of the files in each of the folders and shortcuts.


Requirements

  • LabVIEW 2012 (or compatible)


Steps to Implement or Execute Code

  • Select the directory of the folder.
  • Run the program

 

Additional Information or References
VI Snippet

3-371.png

**This document has been updated to meet the current required format for the NI Code Exchange.**

Justin D.

Applications Engineer
National Instruments

Example code from the Example Code Exchange in the NI Community is licensed with the MIT license.

0 Kudos