ui_get_file path

[John Cunradi]

How do I select the path for the ui_get_file operation.

Right now, it defaults to the "My Documents" folder.

Thanks.

[csda1]

RE: ui_get_file path

John,

To set it to a directory with no file selected, use something like

default="c:|Program Files"+chr(92)+"."
ui_get_file("title","*.dbf",default,"")

To set it to a directory with a file listed in the dialog box, use something like

[b]default="c:|Program Files"+chr(92)+"filename"
ui_get_file("title","*.dbf",default,"")

[Stan Mathews]

RE: ui_get_file path

Careful Ira, your DOS roots are showing.

[csda1]

RE: ui_get_file path

Hi Stan,

If my roots are showing, I guess I'll have to DYE them
(Since everyone knows that DOS has DIEd)! :?)

Regards,

Ira J. Perlow
Computer Systems Design & Associates
[email protected]

[Stan Mathews]

RE: ui_get_file path

Hey,

If DOS is dead, why do we still have page faults and windows "resource" problems. Don't you just love that 640K base memory restriction? We haven't come very far, baby!

[CALocklin]

RE: ui_get_file path

Just add a default file:

ui_get_file( "FILE", "All(*.*)|Apps(*.Exe)|", "C:DATA*.*" )

will automatically show all files in the C:DATA directory.

NOTE: The "file type string" ("All(*.*)|Text(*.Exe)|" in this case) is important. It determines which files appear in the popup window. The default name only determines the text which is 'typed' in the popup window's "File Name" box. If the default file is abc.dbf and the type string is *.exe, then the text "abc.dbf" will appear in the "File Name" box but it will not appear in the list of files.

If there is an asterisk anywhere in the default name, then no name will appear in the "File Name" box of the popup window.

EXAMPLE:
ui_get_file( "FILE", "All(*.*)|Apps(*.Exe)|", "C:DATAg*.exe" )

would show all files (and folders) in the C:DATA directory but there would be no filename in the file selection box.

(Wow, I got confused just writing this - hope it makes sense!)

[CALocklin]

RE: ui_get_file path

OK, I got sidetracked so by the time I got back and finished this there were a bunch of responses.

Also, I forgot to include the backslashes in my ui_get... lines so here are the corrections:

ui_get_file( "FILE", "All(*.*)|Apps(*.Exe)|", "C:\DATA\*.*" )

EXAMPLE:
ui_get_file( "FILE", "All(*.*)|Apps(*.Exe)|", "C:\DATA\g*.exe" )

[John Cunradi]

RE: ui_get_file path

Thanks everyone, I'll give it a try this afternoon.

I've got to say this message board is great!!

[csda1]

RE: ui_get_file path

Hey, back in the CPM days (before MPM and CPM 3.0) we were limited to just 64k.

But heck, we've have come a long way. Now we can cause Page faults and windows "resource" problems at above Ghz speeds.

And now we can waste my 75 Gig Hard drive space at incredible rates (The next version of Office probably requires 300 Gigs!). But while my first rotational media was a 72k North Star floppy drive that cost about $600, my 75 Gig Hard drive (50k free space currently! - :?) ) was cheaper than that!

Oh well. We can't halt the progress of technology.

--Ira

[martinwcole]

RE: ui_get_file path

That brings back old memories. My first computer was a Vector Graphic, 4Mhz Z80, with 2 350 floppies. I remember standing with a client once, explaining what was happening, (as a distraction from the time it took,) while we all waited patiently for the computer to boot, and then the Memorite word processor to boot, circa 1980.

They had just paid about 13,000 for the computer, Memorite, Peachtree written in MBasic IV, and a printer with characters on a wheel - can't remember the name anymore for that type. Hail, printers were around 3 to 5,000 in those days.

[Stan Mathews]

RE: ui_get_file path

Daisywheel.

Oops, shows how old I am.

Stan

[Stephen Williams]

RE: ui_get_file path

Oh boy. I wrote my first program with a paper clip... First you punched out the program, then the data, then you went to the building with the computer and passed the pile of cards through the little window to the people in the climate controlled room. The next day you got the print outs -if there were bugs, you had to correct the faulty cards and resubmit. This was 1975, I think. Then in 1980 I got to "work" on a TRS80 from radioshack running visicalc and writing programs in some variety of Basic. Storage was on a cassette tape recorder(!?). I kinda feel the wheel has turned as we now use CD's the same way...

[CALocklin]

RE: ui_get_file path

I never thought about this until I read Stephen's comments about using the punch cards in 1975. The first program I wrote was in 1967 at GMI (now Kettering University) and we had the same punch card system - including the window to the climate controlled room. That was an 8 year time period. Now think about how far PC's have come in the last 8 years. Wow! Where will we be in another 8 years?

[csda1]

RE: ui_get_file path

Cal,

We'll be able to cause Page faults and windows "resource" problems at above Thz (Tetrahertz) speeds.

And we'll be able to waste our 75 Tet Hard drive space at incredible rates (The next version of Office probably will require 300 Tets!).

And the dialup phones will have increased to 64k! (DSL will have come and died I suspect). But with broadband access in the Gigabit range, we can waste our time on the internet at much higher speeds. :?)

Interestingly, the way technology has progressed with computers and phones cell technology, we are closer to Star Trek's universe than that of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

--Ira

[Stan Mathews]

RE: ui_get_file path

I'm familiar with terahertz and terabyte being 1024 times a gigahertz and gigabyte, respectively, but tetra- I'm not sure. Could you enlighten me as to the multiplier involved?

Speaking of hertz, how is Heinrich these days?