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Title: Retrieve file name from a File Explorer box
Post by: macuma on February 15, 2010, 08:26:26 AM

I have a text button on Form 2 which successfully opens a File Explorer dialog box Form 3.

On selecting a file or creating a new file how do I set the variable dat_loc to the file name? It is currently returning nil.

Does clicking Open on the dialog box carry out a close function?

(defun c:dat_Form2_TextButton3_OnClicked (/)
(dcl_Form_Show dat_Form3)
);defun

(defun c:dat_Form3_OnClose (/)
(setq dat_loc (dcl_FileExplorer_GetFileName dat_Form3))
);defun

Title: Re: Retrieve file name from a File Explorer box
Post by: owenwengerd on February 15, 2010, 08:33:25 AM

Try:
(setq dat_loc (dcl_Form_Show dat_Form3))

Title: Re: Retrieve file name from a File Explorer box
Post by: macuma on February 15, 2010, 08:48:43 AM

Thank you for the quick response, but that did not work.

Title: Re: Retrieve file name from a File Explorer box
Post by: owenwengerd on February 15, 2010, 09:37:26 AM

What exactly didn't work?

Title: Re: Retrieve file name from a File Explorer box
Post by: macuma on February 15, 2010, 09:48:09 AM

dat_loc is still set to nil even though file selected.

Title: Re: Retrieve file name from a File Explorer box
Post by: owenwengerd on February 15, 2010, 10:38:25 AM

Can you provide a simple test project that demonstrates the problem?

Title: Re: Retrieve file name from a File Explorer box
Post by: macuma on February 16, 2010, 05:24:50 AM

Files as requested.

Title: Re: Retrieve file name from a File Explorer box
Post by: owenwengerd on February 16, 2010, 09:24:52 AM

I've attached a corrected .lsp file that is working fine for me. Hopefully this will get you going again.

Title: Re: Retrieve file name from a File Explorer box
Post by: macuma on February 17, 2010, 03:50:49 AM

Excellent! That did the trick.

Thanks for your help.

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