[Syphor]

I have a small simple Carbon program, and when you go to the file menu and select open it brings up an NavChooseObject() dialog. After the user selects the object I want to printf() the object filename.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">void Open_Dialog()
{
NavDialogOptions dialogOptions;
NavReplyRecord Reply;

AEDescList Filename;

NavGetDefaultDialogOptions( &amp;dialogOptions );

NavChooseObject ( NULL, &amp;Reply, &amp;dialogOptions, NULL, NULL, NULL );

Filename = Reply.selection;
}</pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Now I know I have to use AEGetDescData(), but I don't know how.... can anyone guide my please.

[joshjacob]

Syphor,

Try AECountItems() to get the number of items in the AEDescList. You can then iterate through the list and call AEGetNthPtr() to get the FSRef for the file. Lastly, call FSGetCatalogInfo() to get the file name for the FSRef,

Let me know if you need more info on this. The NavServices docs should show you an example.




- josh jacob

Originally posted by Syphor:
I have a small simple Carbon program, and when you go to the file menu and select open it brings up an NavChooseObject() dialog. After the user selects the object I want to printf() the object filename.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">void Open_Dialog()
{
NavDialogOptions dialogOptions;
NavReplyRecord Reply;

AEDescList Filename;

NavGetDefaultDialogOptions( &amp;dialogOptions );

NavChooseObject ( NULL, &amp;Reply, &amp;dialogOptions, NULL, NULL, NULL );

Filename = Reply.selection;
}</pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Now I know I have to use AEGetDescData(), but I don't know how.... can anyone guide my please.