Access to IA File Browse Dialog?

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Edhy
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Access to IA File Browse Dialog?

Postby Edhy » Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:35 pm

Hi, I am writting a Plug-In and need to call the IA File Browse dialog to allow the user to browse to the $TARGETDIR$ and select a file. I need to have the whole file path as in IA like $TARGETDIR$\MyFileName.exe Is this possible?

I then want to put that command in the RTM file.

I am using IA 9 R2 (Build Moya sp3 070910)
Edhy Rijo
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mills
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Re: Access to IA File Browse Dialog?

Postby mills » Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:05 pm

Yes, this should be possible.

You can pass a variable to your plugin ($TARGETDIR$).

Then, from your plugin, you can call OpenFileDialog with the "$TARGETDIR$" as the default location (and you can force that to be the only acceptable path as well), then return the full file path as a result.
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