Accessing Files

I need to find a way of finding out the location of a file on my hard drive by the user browsing to it and clicking on it. I'm sure you use something called a common dialogue box but can't find anything in the help. Does anyone know what it is I use.

Thanks

Paul

I need to find a way of finding out the location of a file on my hard drive by the user browsing to it and clicking on it. I'm sure you use something called a common dialogue box but can't find anything in the help. Does anyone know what it is I use.

Thanks

Paul
the common dialog is used by most if not all windows programs. It is on every persons (windows) computer and is shared. YOu can use it to search for different types of files depending what you want to do. First get the common dialog box on your project by going to (project-components-micrososft common dialog 6.0) then type something like this

Private sub cmdwhatever.click()
dim x as string
commondialog1.fillter = "Text Files|*.txt|Rich text files|*.rft|All text files|*.txt;*.rft"
commondialog1.showopen
commondialog1.filename = x
open x for input as #1
input #1, text1.text
close #1
end sub

just a rough example

hope it helped

bowwer

the "sandbox" project at the link below my name has example code for using the common dialog boxes to do all kinds of things, including what you are looking for

Thanks a lot both of u. I'll give it a try.