Open File Dialog Box

[aldipalo]

How would you set a script step to open the File Dialog Box in WinXP? I'm trying to set a button to open the dialog so that the user can select the document they want to attach to an email and place it in the 'Attachment' field.

I can do this in SMTPit with "SMTPit_File_SelectFileWithDialog" but, I am developing a runtime app for another user who does not have that PlugIn. Is there a way to do this in Native FM?

TIA

Al

[Fenton]

No, FileMaker has not given us a "choose file name" step, which would return a "proposed path for a file." (AppleScript does, but that doesn't help you.)

There is a free plug-in for Windows, MooPlug, which I believe does this. You could include it in the Extensions folder of your runtime distribution.

[P.S. Both AppleScript and plug-ins return OS syntax file paths. So you'd need to use FileMaker text functions to convert the result to a FileMaker syntax path, with the appropriate prefix, "filewin:/" in this case.]

Edited May 23, 2008 by Guest

[aldipalo]

Thanks Fenton for the link. It works just fine.