[AccessD] A2K:Get file name after drag and drop_SecondSend

If the name is in a control, then MyControl.value should give you the contents of that control.

Or am I missing something?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Darren - Active Billing wrote:
> Hi team
> 
> Merry Christmas to all
> I had no response on this one the first time I sent it through
> So here goes again :-)
> Many thanks in advance
> 
> Darren
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> Hi team
> 
> Does anyone know how I can determine the file name of a file after it has been
> dragged from (say the desktop) to an RTF field I have on an Access form?
> 
> Basically I be will writing a reasonably simple import routine for a determined
> file type
> 
> Normally I would have a text box on a form that stores the path and allow users
> to invoke a browse dialogue box.
> 
> But I'd rather just let the user 'drag' the file and drop it onto a
> pre-determined place (The RTF Field) on one of my forms - get the file name and
> then perform the import routine as if the file name was added to some field by
> the browse dialogue box
> 
> Make sense?
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