Re: ShellExecuteA

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Niether STRPCCMD nor RUNRMTCMD will give you that....

Both of those are pieces of the OS designed to be called from a
windows app as the path entered is returned to the calling app..

You could write a small windows program that gets invoked via
STRPCCMD, opens the dialog and does whatever you want with the
returned path.

Charles



On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Robert Ostrowski
<Bob.Ostrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Any way you can get an "open file" dialog box to open in this manner?
> What about a "Save As" dialog box to grab the entire path and save it to a physical file?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 2:11 PM
> To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
> Subject: Re: ShellExecuteA
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> I'll repeat myself one more time...
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> There are ways around the 123 character limit.
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> I'll go a step further and point you to a message in the archive with
> an example...
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200503/msg00317.html
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> Charles
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> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Robert Ostrowski
> <Bob.Ostrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I understand all you said.  ShellExecuteA is what I was using in a
> > Visualage for RPG program I had (I know, old and ancient).  I ran across
> > examples for STRPCCMD and RUNRMTCMD in the archives, but the paths to
> > the PC files will be too long for the 123 character limit on the
> > STRPCCMD command.  Users will be drilling down several folders with
> > large folder and file names (hundreds of characters).  There's a way to
> > do is, I just need to find it!
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