Re: FileNameDialog
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg38803] Re: FileNameDialog
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 04:11:47 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
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Hi, my Mathematica 4.2 say: ?Experimental`FileBrowse FileBrowse[ ] brings up a file browser to pick the name of a file. Regards Jens Rainer Bausch wrote: > > In a contribution to mathgroup, somebody asserted in 1997 that > > userFile=FrontEndExecute[{FrontEndToken["FileNameDialog"]}] > > allows the user to input a file name from the Windows file selector box > into a Mathematica variable. (Search in the Archive for the keyword > FileNameDialog; to find this contribution.) However, this does not work > in Mathematica 4.1 (under Windows NT). I guess that it did not work in > 3.0 either. > > It is true that the file selector box appears, and that the name and path > of the selected file is pasted into the notebook, but the user filename > entry is not transferred into the variable. > > Any help will be appreciated.