Commondialog Cancel

Okay here's what I want to do - I have a program which uses commondialog1.showopen, Now if the user selects cancel in this dialog box I want the entire program to cancel. Silly me I thought it would be as easy as If commondialog1.cancel then bla bla bla. Not happening I get and unknown member error, so there must be another way. I can't even find the commondialog in my help files so any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Dave.K

 

Here's what I've used... I'm running the CommonDialog class from
www.acadx.com.

retVal = oComDlg.ShowSave
If retVal <= 0 Then 'user cancelled or the API call failed, see
CommonDialog class
Exit Sub
End If

If you have subroutines calling this one, you'll have to set a return value
for this sub (maybe make it a function instead of a sub) which depends on
the return value of the .ShowSave (ShowOpen in your case).

James

 

Thanks James, I'll give that a try. For now i found a simple work around - I am setting a variable to be the file name and path of the file the user selects from the open dialog box, so I simple put -- If StrFileName = "" then CmdCancel_click -- into the initial form's activate event. Now when the user is returned to the initial form, if the variable is "" then no file was selected therefore the user pressed cancel so we execute the CmdCancel Click event. Not sure that's the best way but it works.
Yhanks again!

Dave. K

 

A Cancel button hit can be detected via the CancelError property
(object.CancelError [= boolean]).
For the control's help file, try looking for C:\WINNT\Help\CMDLG98.CHM.

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commondialog1.showopen, Now if the user selects cancel in this dialog box I
want the entire program to cancel. Silly me I thought it would be as easy as
If commondialog1.cancel then bla bla bla. Not happening I get and unknown
member error, so there must be another way. I can't even find the
commondialog in my help files so any help you could give me would be greatly
appreciated.

 

That's what I was looking for. Unfortunately that's not where my help file was, but once you know the name of a file it gets a whole lot easier to find.(Crogram Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\MSDN\2001Oct\1033\CMDLG98.CHM)

Thanks again every body.

Dave. K