Which variables?

[hothead]

How would I go about importing a drive's contents into a List View control without the use of a file list box? I know how to put them in their respective columns, I just need to know what API files and variables to use.

[moinkhan]

Is API necessary?

[macai]

I think you can do that with FSO...

[moinkhan]

Yeah.. you can always do it with Scripting Library...aka File System Objects

[rjlohan]

Originally posted by moinkhan
Yeah.. you can always do it with Scripting Library...aka File System Objects

Just to be a dickhead, I'm gonna point out that the FSO is just one part of the Scripting library - they're not one and the same thing.

[BuggyProgrammer]

to get files from a folder:

Function FilesInPath(strDir As String) As String()
    'returns a 0 based array with the directories in strDir
    Dim Count As Integer
    Dim sFiles() As String
    Dim sFile As String
    
    If Right(strDir, 1) <> "\" Then strDir = strDir & "\"
 
    sFile = Dir$(strDir, vbDirectory)
    Count = -1
    Do
        If sFile <> "." And sFile <> ".." Then
            If (GetAttr((strDir & sFile)) And vbDirectory) <> vbDirectory Then
                Count = Count + 1
                ReDim Preserve sFiles(Count)
                sFiles(Count) = sFile
            End If
        End If
    
        sFile = Dir$
    Loop Until sFile = ""
    FilesInPath = sFiles
End Function

to get folders from a folder:

Function DirsInPath(strDir As String) As String()
    'returns a 0 based array with the directories in strDir
    Dim Count As Integer
    Dim sFiles() As String
    Dim sFile As String
    
    If Right(strDir, 1) <> "\" Then strDir = strDir & "\"
    
    sFile = Dir$(strDir, vbDirectory)
    Count = -1
    Do
        If sFile <> "." And sFile <> ".." Then
            If (GetAttr((strDir & sFile)) And vbDirectory) Then
                Count = Count + 1
                ReDim Preserve sFiles(Count)
                sFiles(Count) = sFile
            End If
        End If
        
        sFile = Dir$
    Loop Until sFile = ""
    DirsInPath = sFiles
End Function

[BuggyProgrammer]

oh yeah.. it gives you an array, so for example loop through files in C and adds to listbox:

dim a() as string
dim i as long

a = FilesInPath("C:\")
for i = lbound(a) to ubound(a)
list1.additem a(i)
next i