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Browsing for file in XP - 10/17/2006 10:47:46 PM

TNO

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Greetings,

I'm using the following script to browse for a file, and just noticed that it returns an empty string in XP, any ideas?

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RE: Browsing for file in XP - 10/17/2006 11:08:13 PM

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Is it possible that you are browsing for a folder, and because of that you aren't getting the file return?
For example, when i use the following code:

If I select a FOLDER, it will return the folder name, but if I select a file and click ok... Bad MoJo.
However, I have found that to browse for files from vbscript the following code works:

Hope this helps.

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RE: Browsing for file in XP - 10/18/2006 3:13:13 AM

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Thanks but I was looking for an alternative to UserAccounts.CommonDialog so it would be compatible with Windows before XP. Whats irritating me the most is that I've tried 3-4 methods of browsing for a fil and saving a fie, but none seem to work on both windows 2000 and xp

Besides the code I listed above, I also tried the following (which was my de facto standard for dialogs up til now):

//SaveTrans uses the common dialog box object to display the save as dialog,
//then writes a textstream object from the value of the bottom frame textarea
function SaveTrans(X){
//Setting CancelError to true and using try/catch allows the user to click cancel
// on the save as dialog without causing a script error
   cDialog.CancelError=true;
   try{
       cDialog.Filter="DAT Files (*.dat)|*.dat|Text Files (*.txt)|*.txt|All Files (*.*)|*.*"
       cDialog.ShowSave();
       f = fso.CreateTextFile(cDialog.filename, true);
       f.write(X);
       f.Close();
       sPersistValue=X;}
   catch(e){
       var sCancel="true";
       return sCancel;}
}

For some ungodly reason my favorite dialog method doesn't work on this particular network (XP Pro). It silently fails, as do the others. Only the Common.Dialog method works. I wouldn't mind Using Common.Dialog for just this particular computer network but I don't think it hs a method of saving. If there is please let me know, its been driving me insane for the past 3 days

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RE: Browsing for file in XP - 10/18/2006 5:34:15 AM

TNO

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umm.....nevermind, lol

Saving a file in XP:

Opening a file in XP:

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RE: Browsing for file in XP - 10/18/2006 7:01:22 AM

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What the crap....

Button I click:



Code that runs it:





The error I receive:



Is there something obvious I'm overlooking? I've never had such an issue on any other computer network in my life

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RE: Browsing for file in XP - 10/18/2006 7:29:40 AM

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Um,
<script src="js/OpenSave.js" type="text/vbscript"></script> 

Could that have something to do with it? Are you trying to run a .js as vbscript?

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RE: Browsing for file in XP - 10/18/2006 3:53:12 PM

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Yeah, I noticed that when I woke up this morning........thanks again

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