OpenFileDialog Control

Using System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog

The following example demonstrates

The use of the System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog DotNetControl as alternative to the MAXScript GetOpenFileName..
The main advantage of the DotNet version is the ability to select multiple files at once.

theDialog = dotNetObject "System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog" --create a OpenFileDialog
theDialog.title = "PLEASE Select One Or More Files" --set the title
theDialog.Multiselect = true --allow multiple files to be selected
theDialog.Filter = "HTML Files (*.html)|*.html|All Files (*.*)|*.*" --specify the filter
theDialog.FilterIndex = 2 --set the filter drop-down list to All Files
result = theDialog.showDialog() --display the dialog, get result into variable
result.ToString() --when closed, convert the result to string
result.Equals result.OK --returns TRUE if OK was pressed, FALSE otherwise
result.Equals result.Cancel --returns TRUE if Cancel was pressed, FALSE otherwise
theFilenames = theDialog.fileNames --the selected filenames will be returned as an array

DotNet Classes Used:

dotNetObject:System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog

Last Modified: 2006/10/19