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Help with VB Design's File Dialog Class

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 19:49:12 GMT

I've been attempting to use the File Dialog Class from http://www.vbdesign.net/cadpages/code/source/file_dialogs.htm but I'm having no luck and I suspect it is because I am placing the code in the wrong location.

Can someone tell me if this code belongs in a module or a class or a combination of both? Also, I'm trying to use this in AutoCAD Map 2002. Will this existing code work in 2002? On that note, is this the best solution for prompting the user to open a drawing file or is there a simpler method that already exists?

Thanks

Re: Help with VB Design's File Dialog Class

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 20:01:48 GMT

I should also note that I'm pretty experienced with VBA, but do not have experience working with classes.

In other applications such as Excel, displaying the File Open dialog is very simple using the GetOpenFilename method and I'm extremely surprized that nothing exists like that in VBA for AutoCAD.

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Anonymous — Sat, 08 Jun 2002 13:57:33 GMT

The DrawingEditor class in the AcadX(tm) Active Extension
Library for AutoCAD (www.caddzone.com) has FileDialog()
and FileNavDialog() methods that allow you to use the same
Open/Save dialog that AutoCAD uses.

"geoback" wrote in message
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> I should also note that I'm pretty experienced with VBA, but do not have
experience working with classes.
> In other applications such as Excel, displaying the File Open dialog is
very simple using the GetOpenFilename method and I'm extremely surprized
that nothing exists like that in VBA for AutoCAD.
>
>

Re: Help with VB Design's File Dialog Class

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Jun 2002 16:51:37 GMT

The code from VBDesign belongs in a class module. You may
then use a standard module to create an instance of the class for your
project to use.

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I've
been attempting to use the File Dialog Class from
href="http://www.vbdesign.net/cadpages/code/source/file_dialogs.htm">http://www.vbdesign.net/cadpages/code/source/file_dialogs.htm
but I'm having no luck and I suspect it is because I am placing the code in
the wrong location.

Can someone tell me if this code belongs in a module or a class or a
combination of both? Also, I'm trying to use this in AutoCAD Map 2002. Will
this existing code work in 2002? On that note, is this the best solution for
prompting the user to open a drawing file or is there a simpler method that
already exists?

Thanks

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Anonymous — Sun, 09 Jun 2002 13:00:49 GMT

Hi Tony,

Thanks for your reply.

I had seen your AcadX extension library but your usage restrictions prevent
me from distributing the routine to my client. This is a fairly small job
therefore it wasn't worth getting into a license agreement.

I will defnitely keep you in mind if this job grows into something much
bigger.

Thanks again

"Tony Tanzillo" wrote in message
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The DrawingEditor class in the AcadX(tm) Active Extension
Library for AutoCAD (www.caddzone.com) has FileDialog()
and FileNavDialog() methods that allow you to use the same
Open/Save dialog that AutoCAD uses.

"geoback" wrote in message
news:f0e7e25.0@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I should also note that I'm pretty experienced with VBA, but do not have
experience working with classes.
> In other applications such as Excel, displaying the File Open dialog is
very simple using the GetOpenFilename method and I'm extremely surprized
that nothing exists like that in VBA for AutoCAD.
>
>

Re: Help with VB Design's File Dialog Class

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:14:02 GMT

I have created a class and put the vbdesign code into it. it won't compile. it says the public const data can't be public const...

Re: Help with VB Design's File Dialog Class

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:12:55 GMT

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I have created a class and put the vbdesign code into it. it won't compile.
it says the public const data can't be public const...

either move it into a std module or make it private

hth
Mark

Re: Help with VB Design's File Dialog Class

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:31:22 GMT

I moved it to a std module. I could not make it private because the contants would not be available for other codes use.

It is now working.

Re: Help with VB Design's File Dialog Class

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:42:25 GMT

just curious....why should they be available for other code's use? As I
understand it, a major point of class programing is to encapsulate bits of
code until functional objects, only exposing information through properties.
Though there are some instances where public variables can make sense, in
general they're best kept to a minimum.

-Chris

wrote in message news:5084385@discussion.autodesk.com...
I moved it to a std module. I could not make it private because the
contants would not be available for other codes use.

It is now working.

Re: Help with VB Design's File Dialog Class

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:49:57 GMT

The standard OPENFILENAME structure has to be populated with a varierty of flag values. You then pass your structure into the GetOpenFileName method. Thus those flags need to be known.

Standard MFC behavior always makes the flag constants public for this particular wrapper in Visual C++

Andrew

Re: Help with VB Design's File Dialog Class

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:23:04 GMT

True, but the whole point of creating a wrapper is so that you don't need to
be making the API calls all over the place. If the windows dialog wrapper
was implimented as a class then it could be the only code accessing the
OPENFILENAME API call directly and thus the data structure wouldn't need to
be declared as public. All dialog requests would be handled by the methods
and properties of the wrapper.

I'm not familiar with the VB design dialog class wrapper, but I know that's
how mine works.

-Chris

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The standard OPENFILENAME structure has to be populated with a varierty of
flag values. You then pass your structure into the GetOpenFileName method.
Thus those flags need to be known.

Standard MFC behavior always makes the flag constants public for this
particular wrapper in Visual C++

Andrew

Re: Help with VB Design's File Dialog Class

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:50:10 GMT

I know what you mean.

Re: Help with VB Design's File Dialog Class

fxcastil — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:47:40 GMT

go to link below an download "comm dialog .zip " this should work for you

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=451811

Fred Castillo

Re: Help with VB Design's File Dialog Class

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:31:34 GMT

Thanks. I got the vb designs one working.

Andrew