File And/Or Path Name Entry

I used to use the Drive1, Dir1 and File1 control from VB3 onwards. But frankly speaking, they are ugly.

Do anybody can tell me how I can use the same screen as the normal ...File...Open option, as we see in MSWord or so.

If possible, will it be a control, so that I just pass in parameters?

Thanks

That is the "Microsoft Common Dialog control". Add a reference to the control in your project. Place one on the form, and happy coding.

I tried the common dialog, so far if I am getting a file name is OK, but how about I only want to have the path name

To get the path from a file name string.

Code:

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strFilename = "c:\iain\iain\iain.txt"
MsgBox Left$(strFilename, InStrRev(strFilename, "\"))

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