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From: ecphssrw@roger.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Standard File Requesters
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Date: 15 May 89 17:26:28 GMT
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In-reply-to: ranjit@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Ranjit Bhatnagar)

In article <11126@netnews.upenn.edu>, ranjit@grad2 (Ranjit Bhatnagar) writes:
>
>OK, then - who's gonna be the first to write a file-requester in
>structured, well-documented AREXX code?

Here's one:

Call Addlib('rexxarplib.library',0,-30,0)
filename = GetFile(x, y, 'dir', 'file', 'title')

where x and y are the coordinates of the upper right corner of the
requester, 'dir' is the name of the starting directory, 'file' is
the default file in the flie gadget, and 'title' is the title to
appear in the title bar of the requester.

Steve Walton

P.S. 1/2 :-) Seriously, rexxarplib is the only sensible way to get at
Intuition functions, including gadgets, requesters, etc., from ARexx.