caleyjag 2 Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 I'm aware of this thread over at NI: https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/select-multiple-files-and-folders/td-p/3049461 I have an application where I want to manually select a handful of folders (which in my case live in the same directory) and automatically fill their paths into an array. As stated in the discussion linked above, the File Dialog express VI offers a mode to select multiple files, but as I can tell it does not offer the functionality to select multiple folders. Am I missing an obvious solution? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dadreamer 29 Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 I'm kind of unsure whether this could be accomplished with a common File Dialog or an underlying yellow File Dialog and its ExtFileDialog internal function. But you could switch to .NET and use some third party libraries available. One of those is BetterFolderBrowser proposed here. I have just tested it on both 32- and 64-bit LabVIEW 2019/2020 and it works great. Here's the basic example: Untitled 1.vi 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Yesky 0 Posted August 22, 2020 Report Share Posted August 22, 2020 Good Job. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caleyjag 2 Posted September 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2020 On 8/18/2020 at 5:07 AM, dadreamer said: I'm kind of unsure whether this could be accomplished with a common File Dialog or an underlying yellow File Dialog and its ExtFileDialog internal function. But you could switch to .NET and use some third party libraries available. One of those is BetterFolderBrowser proposed here. I have just tested it on both 32- and 64-bit LabVIEW 2019/2020 and it works great. Here's the basic example: Untitled 1.vi 8.07 kB · 5 downloads I wasn't able to get the BetterFolderBrowser DLL working on my system unfortunately. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dadreamer 29 Posted September 4, 2020 Report Share Posted September 4, 2020 10 hours ago, caleyjag said: I wasn't able to get the BetterFolderBrowser DLL working on my system unfortunately. Could you elaborate on the problem you are facing? If you received Error 1386: The Specified .NET Class is Not Available in LabVIEW, then you most likely should unblock the DLL downloaded first and only after that you launch LabVIEW and run that example. See this article for the details. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rikkom 0 Posted January 21 Report Share Posted January 21 Where can we download the DLL from? Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dadreamer 29 Posted January 21 Report Share Posted January 21 Just now, Rikkom said: Where can we download the DLL from? Here 😉 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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