OpenDialog method

Calling this method will present the user with the standard Windows "Open" dialog.

Member of

Runtime

Type

Function(FileName, Filters)

Parameters

• Filename: [Optional] String - Default filename. The dialog will be pre-populated with this value.
• Filters: [Optional] String - Filename filters appear in the drop down box at the bottom of the dialog. Filters is pipe-delimited list of Display/Pattern pairs, e.g. "Text Files (*.txt)|*.txt|All Files (*.*)|*.*".

Return

• String - The filename selected by the user or empty string, if the user clicks Cancel.

Example

Dest = OpenDialog("output.txt", "Text Files (*.txt)|*.txt")
If Dest <> "" Then
  For Each Document in App.ActiveTab.FetchAll
    ' Do your processing here
  Next
End If

See Also

Macro Object Model

Runtime

• App property
• BrowseForFolder method
• Cancelled property
• Filename property
• Name property
• NewZipFile method
• Progress method
• SafeFilename method
• SaveDialog method