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returning variable to app - 11/10/2006 7:10:55 AM

ursus

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I am a total newbe on vbs. Have a little Visual Basic experience, but that was a long time ago. So please be a little patient with me.
I have a program (FileMaker Pro) that starts a vbs to retrieve a path. I have written the first part of the script (with a lot of help), Which grabs the path. Now I want to return this value into a field in a Filemaker.
Filemaker is a database program. The field might be active in the current window, or I can make it appear if need to. I have no clue how to handle filemaker and vbs in such a way the path gets to be in the field.
This is what I have come up with so far.
Const WINDOW_HANDLE = 0
Const NO_OPTIONS = 0
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.BrowseForFolder _
(WINDOW_HANDLE, "Select a folder:", NO_OPTIONS, "C:\")
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.Self
objPath = objFolderItem.Path

objPath now holds the path I have selected, but now I want to transfer in into Filemaker. Any help much appreciated.

Ursus

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RE: returning variable to app - 11/11/2006 9:14:02 PM

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Without any knowledge of FileMaker, my best guess is to use SendKeys to do the job:

and from this point use the sendkeys documentation to get your cursor to the field where you need it and place the path where it needs to be

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RE: returning variable to app - 11/13/2006 7:56:17 PM

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Again, I don't know Filemaker but you have a couple of options depending on Filemaker's capabilities

Store the field in the registry
Store the field in an environment variable
Store the field in a text file

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