Open or ask file, or other?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sun Jul 28 21:32:00 EDT 2002


Simon Lord wrote:

> I'd like to get the user to select any file they wish via the
> file browser on their default OS.  In this case I'm talking
> about the Mac OSX OS.  I'd like a dialog box to open which
> allows them to click a file and select "ok" etc.  Problem is I
> can only seem to initiate the dialog box to do 1 thing, (1) they
> pick a name and location to save a file.  I briefly thought of
> the Open command but you need to know the path for that.
> 
> I seem to be suffering another brain fart, if someone can point
> me to the proper method to allow a user to pick a file  on their
> own via a file browser then it would go a long way to closing
> off this otherwise great weekend.

   answer file "Select a file:"

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