Hello,

I am searching for a utility in Openinsight to validate a file path typed in an edit box. I am able to use Choosefile to do this; however, I need to also trap any typed-in input.

Thanks Bruce

Bruce,

Don't particularly know about OpenInsight, but I do this in AREV by executing the DIR() function using the value type into the text box.

If DIR() returns information, then the file exists. If it doesn't return anything, the file doesn't exist.

Matt Sorrell

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Bruce,

Matt's solution will work for short names, but not for long names (and names with a space in them - same problem as with long names). But Eric Emu suggested a solution for me once (for something else really) that I think could be used in your case also:

Invoke a "dir … ] temp" on the folder containing the file and then osread & parse temp. The dir command will list both short and long names.

- Oystein -

You can always try an OSOPEN on the file and check for an error.

Don Miller

C3 Inc.

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