{"id":3971,"date":"2016-02-16T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2019-07-07T18:20:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T18:20:42","slug":"cd-menu-creator-how-to-open-a-folder-from-a-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/cd-menu-creator-how-to-open-a-folder-from-a-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"CD-Menu Creator: How to open a folder from a menu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"From a menu created with CD-Menu Creator<\/a> you can run programs, show documents, show pictures, play videos, open web pages + much more. But if you only want to open a folder on the drive. Is it possible?<\/p>\n

Yes. It is easy done. Follow the steps below to create a button that opens a folder on the same drive as the menu:<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> Start CD-Menu Creator.
\n2.<\/strong> Create a new project or open an existing project.
\n3.<\/strong> Open the Buttons (text)<\/strong> tab.
\n4.<\/strong> Click on the Add Button<\/strong> button.
\n5.<\/strong> Enter a button text at the Text (button)<\/strong> input box, for example “Open Folder”.
\n6.<\/strong> Choose the Open Folder<\/strong> command from the Command<\/strong> list.
\n7.<\/strong> Enter a folder name at Folder (disc)<\/strong>. This is the folder that will be opened when the user clicks on the button. The Add Button<\/strong> dialog box should now look like this:<\/p>\n

\"Add<\/p>\n

8.<\/strong> Click OK<\/strong>.
\n9.<\/strong> Create the menu.<\/p>\n

If you have not created the folder (specified at step 7) on your drive yet, you can follow the steps below to create it:
\n10.<\/strong> Open the folder where the menu was created.
\n11.<\/strong> Add a sub folder in the creation folder with the same folder name that you specified at step 7 above. For example a sub folder with the folder name MyFolder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Now you can test your menu. Click on the button in the menu interface that you created:<\/p>\n

\"Open<\/p>\n

and the folder will be opened:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

In the example above we have added three text files to the folder. But you can add what contents you want to the folder; for example pictures or videos.<\/p>\n

See also<\/strong>
\n><\/span><\/strong> CD-Menu Creator\u2019s button commands explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a menu created with CD-Menu Creator you can run programs, show documents, show pictures, play videos, open web pages + much more. But if you only want to open a folder on the drive. Is it possible? Yes. It is easy done. Follow the steps below to create a button that opens a folder … <\/p>\n

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