Selecting a file..

[AndyD]

Hi folks,

I am currently messing around with playbasic, hoping to create a small app that will manipulate images to help with a papercraft project I am working on.

Is it possible in playbasic to manually select files using a file selector? It is probably a really dumb question but I have looked through the playbasic help and can't find an example of one being used.

[kevin]

 LoadDialog sounds like what you want.   It's in the help under  Libraries / PB_Dialogs.   That library has a bunch of windows dialog controls in it..

PlayBASIC Code: [Select]

; Inlcude the Dialogs library in this program
  #include "PBDialogs"
  
  
; Title Of the Dialog
  Title$="Load A Text File"
  
; Pre-seed the file name we're expecting to find
  Filename$="Some Cool FIle.txt"
  
  
;   Filter$="" ; No Filter show all files
  Filter$     ="(*.TXT)|*.TXT"          ; Only TXT files
;     Filter$     ="(*.PNG)|*.PNG"          ; Only PNG files
;     Filter$     ="(*.BMP)|*.BMP"          ; Only BMP Files
;     Filter$     ="(*.Jpeg)|*.JPG"          ; Only JPG files
;     Filter$ ="(*.Images)|*.JPG;*.bmp;*.PNG;*gif"   ; Mixture of image files
  
  
; Call the Load Dialog
  File$=LoadDialog(Title$,Filename$,Filter$)
  
  
; Display the file you selected
  Print "You Selected "
  
; Display the Info about this file$
  If FileExist(file$)
     Print "Path:"+FIle$
     Print "Size:"+Str$(FileSize(File$))+" Bytes"
     
  Else
     Print "No file Was Selected"
     
  EndIf
  
  // Display the screen & wait for a key press to end
  Sync
  WaitKey

[AndyD]

Hi Kevin,

That is exactly what I am looking for.

Many thanks!