FILEDLG
A user file selection accessory for use with r4™

1 Categories:

visual accessory, user file selection accessory

2 Description:

The FILEDLG accessory is used by r4™ programs to acquire a system file name. Since multiple r4™ programs can be active at the same time, the name of a system registry subkey is passed as a value in the command line. This allows each r4™ program to receive an independent file name response value.

3 Usage:

4 Arguments:

The FILEDLG program's main system registry key is:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Kilowatt Software\FileDlg

The following registry values are initially passed by the r4™ program to FILEDLG. See the registry extract below to better understand the format of these values.

The following registry values are revised when the FILEDLG program returns.

5 Returns:

6 Buttons:

7 Example registry values

Here is a registry extract associated with an invocation by the FileDlg.rex example program.

The plain values are passed to the FILEDLG program.

The BOLD values are returned.

8 Example:

The following is the r4™ program that interacted with the FILEDLG program with the registry values shown above.

FILEDLG
An r4™ auxiliary rogram.
Version 1.0
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Last updated on: 4 Mar 2011