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Re: st: Re: Prompt user of ado file for input & output file names & path
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Eric Booth <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Re: Prompt user of ado file for input & output file names & path
Date
Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:19:10 +0000
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As Nick suggested, -dialog- boxes are what you want (especially to allow users to navigate folders); however, I also like to use -display, request()- (see -help display-) and thought others may find it useful:
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di `" TYPE THE FILEPATH INTO THE COMMAND WINDOW AND THEN PRESS ENTER "' _request(ans)
**puts path in global macro $ans
**echo that back to the user:
window stopbox note `"PATH ENTERS AS : $ans"'
*or:
di `"PATH ENTERED AS: $ans"'
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- Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
On Jul 4, 2011, at 6:51 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> . search dialog
>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Partho Sarkar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This may be a very basic question! I am writing an ado file which
>> will take a data file, perform some operations on the data, and write
>> the resulting data to another file. How could I write commands to ask
>> the user to enter the names (with paths) of the input & output files?
>> This could be either in the form of displaying a text box/boxes for
>> the file names or, much more preferably, allow the user to browse (in
>> Windows) to the directory & input file.
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