Windows 7 Explorer A2010

#11

On 15/12/2009 22:16:45, "David W. Fenton" wrote:

Quote:

"Albert D. Kallal" <PleaseNOOOsPAMmkallal (AT) msn (DOT) com> wrote in
news:q3CVm.80878$W77.22569 (AT) newsfe11 (DOT) iad:

Rich is on the right track. You can use:

Dim f As FileDialog

I had originally thought this required a reference to the Office
library, but I see that FileDialog is a member of the
Access.Application object, so it won't require it. I note that this
was not the case in Access 2000 (I don't have A2002 to see if it was
introduced there). I do see that it's still in A2007.

However, given the experience with the FileSearch object (introduced
in Office 95/97, and removed from Office 2007), I worry about
depending on it always being there. Using the Windows API is going
to be future-proof, as opposed to using a wrapper around it provided
by the Access application, which could come and go with different
versions.

You could be right, Davis
Would you be kind enough to let me have a copy of the functions.
The ones I use were written by Ken Gatz over 12 years ago

Thanks

Phil

#12

"Phil" <phil (AT) stantonfamily (DOT) co.uk> wrote in
news:goednXSUyajAELXWnZ2dnUVZ8kWdnZ2d (AT) brightview (DOT) co.uk:

Quote:

Would you be kind enough to let me have a copy of the functions.
The ones I use were written by Ken Gatz over 12 years ago

In my apps I'm using the ADH97 versions. An earlier version of that
is what's on the Access Web
(http://mvps.org/access/api/api0001.htm). It's written against the
Windows API -- it's not going to be broken in future versions of
Windows because MS doesn't break its legacy APIs. Remember, DOS apps
compiled in 1982 or so still run on current versions of Windows, and
I don't expect that the Windows API will be omitted from whatever
replaces Windows some day.

That said, there very well may snazzier functionality in newer APIs,
or in using the wrapper object in Access, but I'd rather stick with
something that works and will continue to work as long as Windows
exists.

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#13

On 17/12/2009 04:05:31, "David W. Fenton" wrote:

Quote:

"Phil" <phil (AT) stantonfamily (DOT) co.uk> wrote in
news:goednXSUyajAELXWnZ2dnUVZ8kWdnZ2d (AT) brightview (DOT) co.uk:

Would you be kind enough to let me have a copy of the functions.
The ones I use were written by Ken Gatz over 12 years ago

In my apps I'm using the ADH97 versions. An earlier version of that
is what's on the Access Web
(http://mvps.org/access/api/api0001.htm). It's written against the
Windows API -- it's not going to be broken in future versions of
Windows because MS doesn't break its legacy APIs. Remember, DOS apps
compiled in 1982 or so still run on current versions of Windows, and
I don't expect that the Windows API will be omitted from whatever
replaces Windows some day.

That said, there very well may snazzier functionality in newer APIs,
or in using the wrapper object in Access, but I'd rather stick with
something that works and will continue to work as long as Windows
exists.

Thanks David

That is what I have used

Phil

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