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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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.