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Re: FileNameDialog

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  • Subject: [mg38791] Re: [mg38768] FileNameDialog
  • From: Kirk Reinholtz <kirk.reinholtz at jpl.nasa.gov>
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:17:34 -0500 (EST)
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I think the prefered way to do that now is via Experimental`FileBrowse

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.


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