Law Manager User Group

[BorisZ]

Did someone faces a problem with Common Dialog in LawManager. We are calling it from VB script by
Set dlgOpen = CreateObject("MSComDlg.CommonDialog.1")
This worked OK in 5.0, but returns an error in 5.31
Thanks!

[nickpuschak]

The problem with MSComDlg.CommonDialog is not a LawManager issue, but Microsoft changed the licensing of this and some of the API.
The dialog is only installed with a VB project using the dialog and I think previously it was installed as part of microsoft office.

There is a EvLa.GetPath function to do this. This will put up a dialog for the user to choose a file.

function GetPath([title: OleVariant], [filter: OleVariant], [defaultExt: OleVariant], [initialDir: OleVariant]): WideString

Function GetPath( _
ByVal Title As Variant, _
ByVal filter As Variant, _
ByVal defaultExt As Variant, _
ByVal initialDir As Variant _
) As String

Parameters
Title - The title to display in the dialog title. Usually this should describe what the user is selecting.

filter - What filters to use. This is a vertical bar separated list of items. The items come in pairs when the description is first and then the actual filter. For example: 'Law Manager Script File|*.LMS;*.ECF|Report File (*.QRP)|*.QRP' will result in two file types being available. Either "Law Manager Script File" or "Report File (*.QRP)" are the choices the user will see. Internally the two file types are filtered by *.LMS;*.ECF and *.QRP. Notice that it is possible to have multiple file type filters grouped under one display entry for the user.

defaultExt - The default extension to use. This will cause the dialog to focus on this filter first.

initialDir - The initial directory to use for browsing. If this is not passed in then the current directory of the application will be used.
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Nicholas Puschak
Bridgeway Software
VP Product Management