CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user2561924
user2561924

Reputation: 47

How to fill textbox with filename from OpenFileDialog?

I have a user interface that has a button and a text box. The button opens up OpenFiledDialog where a file is selected. I want to capture the path/filename from the System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog and place it into a System.Windows.Forms.TextBox.

###############Browse Button################################################################
$Button3 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$Button3.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(23,219)
$Button3.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(23,23)
$Button3.Text = "..."
$Button3.Add_Click({Get-FileName -initialDirectory "d:\pathname"})
$Form1.Controls.Add($Button3)
###############SpreadSheetBox##################################################################
$InputBox3 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
$InputBox3.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(51,219)
$InputBox3.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(220,310)
$InputBox3.Multiline= $false
$Form1.Controls.Add($InputBox3)

The 'browse' button calls the function Get-FileName. Please see my code.

Function Get-FileName($initialDirectory)
{   
 [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.windows.forms") |
 Out-Null
 $OpenFileDialog = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog
 $OpenFileDialog.Title = "Choose a spreadsheet"
 $OpenFileDialog.initialDirectory = $initialDirectory
 $OpenFileDialog.filter = "Excel Worksheet (*.xlsx)| *.xlsx"
 $OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog() | Out-Null
 $OpenFileDialog.filename

It doesn't have to be a function that is called; I just want it to work. Currently it is not putting the selected file's path int he textbox.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4066

Answers (1)

Bluecakes
Bluecakes

Reputation: 2149

To change the text in a texbox you can use the .Text option like so:

$Button3.Add_Click({$InputBox3.Text = Get-FileName -initialDirectory "d:\pathname"})

Here we change the text of InputBox3 by calling the GetFileName function that way the text in InputBox3 will then be the result of Get-FileName (the filename the person selects)

Upvotes: 3

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