Need Macro Advice 1

[MAURO23]

In the Wordperfect 12 Macro Language, I cannot seem to find a command that returns the CURRENT directory unless there is an active document on the screen.


I need to be able to dtermine what the current folder is without a active document on the screen or even if there is an active document that does not reside in the current directory.

Can anyone help ?

 

[khobson]

While one would think that ?pathcurrent would do the job, it doesn't. I may seem to at time though.

At wpuniverse.com, there are several responses. We discussed the issues in past threads there.

One quick way is something like:
InhibitInput(On!)
Display(Off!)
InvokeDialog(FileOpenDlg)
Repeat
Until(Applocate("Open File - *")<>0)
dir=RegionGetWindowText(RegionGetFocus())
dir=dir-"Open File - "
SendKeys("{ESC}")
MessageBox(;;dir)

 

[MAURO23]

Wow !

It seems to work !

It the only of many "alleged" solutions that actually does !


Thank you very much

Mauro

 

[khobson]

The one that gpremo posted at wpu,

http://wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17804&perpage=10&pagenumber=2,

works without flashing. It needs a little cleaning up though. The advantage to that method is that the screen will not flicker since no FileOpenDlg() is opened.

I may post a simple example at wpu's code snippet forum sometime. The macro that gpremo posted was derived from work done by Klaus, lemoto (Roy Lewis) and Martin at wpu primarily.