[AccessD] Retrieve path to a file - Common Dialog Control

Brett Barabash BBarabash at TappeConstruction.com
Mon Apr 28 14:58:13 CDT 2003


Trust me, you're better off using the API calls.  The common dialog OCX is
just a wrapper for the DLL that is called by the API.  Even though they are
"supposed" to be binary compatible, newer versions of IE caused my projects
to break.

Avoid distributing OCXes wherever possible.  Otherwise, be prepared to walk
a user through manually RegSvr'ing a control that didn't properly register.


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Rojas [mailto:JRojas at tnco-inc.com]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:07 PM
To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Retrieve path to a file - Common Dialog Control


NP Nacy.

I stumbled across the MS Common Dialog control and I will end up using it
instead of APIs. Unless of course someone has a good reason why I shouldn't.
:)

Thanks,

Joe Rojas

-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Lytle [mailto:nancy.lytle at auatac.com]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:55 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Retrieve path to a file

I wish I could think of the name of it now, but I used to have a nice little
utility that went into the Send To on the right click menu.  If you went to
a file in Windows Explorer you could right click on it > Send To>clipboard
and the full file path including the file name were saved to the clipboard.
Wish I could find it for you:(

Nancy

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Joe Rojas
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:47 PM
To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
Subject: [AccessD] Retrieve path to a file


Hello All,

How does anyone have any code examples that results in a dialog box opening
and allows that user to navigate to a specified file and return the path to
the file?
I am pretty sure that it is possible to use windows API calls for something
like this, but I am not very knowledgeable about using API calls.

Thanks!

Joe Rojas




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