Launch a file when double-clicking on a listbox

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Hello,
By double clicking on my Listbox1, I want to open the clicked file whose path is passed as a Listbox1.RowTagAt() parameter. I am not familiar with the “Folderitem.FromSaveInfo()” command that replaces the depreciated “FolderItem.GetRelative()” command.
I am inspired by an old source that displayed this:

Dim f As New FolderItem
launchFile = f.GetRelative(RowTag(ListIndex))
If launchFile <> Nil And launchFile.Exists Then
  launchFile.Open()
End If

I tried to translate (unsuccessfully) into :

If Listbox1.RowCount >= 0 Then
  Var path As String 
  Var launchFile As FolderItem
  
  Var f As New FolderItem
 
  //launchFile = f.FromSaveInfo(Me.RowTagAt(Me.SelectedRowIndex)) //for test
  path = Listbox1.RowTagAt(Listbox1.SelectedRowIndex)
  launchFile = f.FromSaveInfo(path)   //return an folderitem
  
  If launchFile <> Nil Then  //launchFile always "nil" !
    launchFile.Open 
  End If
End If

A little help will do me good. Thanks.

2

Can you save in “RowTagAt” the object “FolderItem” directly?
So you can directly use the Open Method.

If you can’t, you must use this code (if you use 2019r2+):

Var launchFile as FolderItem
launchFile = new FolderItem(path, FolderItem.PathModes.Native)   'for example
3

As Ant says above, if you Populate the listbox with

Listbox1.RowTagAt(some_row_number) = theFolderitem

Then to launch it, all you should NEED to do is:

theFolderitem = Listbox1.RowTagAt(Listbox1.SelectedRowIndex) 
  If launchFile <> Nil  and launchfile.exists Then 
    launchFile.Open 
  End If
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4

Thanks you. That’s run !