CEP Panel to reveal file in folder

[Reveal Video Team]

Is there a way to show an Item in a folder in a CEP Panel for Premiere Pro?

In electron I can:

const {shell} = require('electron');

shell.showItemInFolder(fileList[0]);

In adobe I think I should be able to do it through nw.js but I'm not sure how I execute the nw command:

nw.Shell.showItemInFolder(fileList[0]);

[Bruce Bullis]

A folder in the OS, or a folder (bin) in the Project panel?

[Reveal Video Team]

It is a folder in the OS...

I've come across your previous answers suggesting : window.cep.process.createProcess('C:\\Windows\\explorer.exe','yourAbsoluteFolderPathAsString')

However, this runs Windows explorer, but doesn't open to the correct folder.

Ideally, I'd like to use the "/select," option so that a particular file is highlighted, and of course use the file path in that case.

I have also seen that someone else is running into a similar issue here, but I don't see a good response to it - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38448873/opening-explorer-to-a-specific-file-in-node-js

Thanks!

[Bruce Bullis]

>...However, this runs Windows explorer, but doesn't open to the correct folder.

Here, it opens the folder specified by the string; what does it open, on your system?

> Ideally, I'd like to use the "/select," option so that a particular file is highlighted, and of course use the file path in that case.

I don't know of any way to accomplish that, using CEP calls. 

[Reveal Video Team]

It opens to "This PC > Documents" -- I tried with both \\ and \ as separator

[Reveal Video Team · Accepted solution]

After some struggle, I've gotten this to work:

In this case fileList = ["X:\\Preview\\vid\\vid_original\\PRIVATE\\M4ROOT\\CLIP\\C0005.MP4"]

var path = fileList[0]; // This has the file path with escaped backslashes
path = path.replace(/\\\\/g, "\\");
console.log("Path", path);
var command = 'C:\\Windows\\explorer.exe';
var cmd = command + ' /select, "'+path+'"';
var process = require('child_process');
var exec = process.exec;
exec(cmd, function(err, stdout, stderr) {
});