How do I get a single file name out of a File Dialog object in VBA (for MS Access 2007)?

Question

How do I change my code to get the file name instead of the directory name? openDialog.InitialFilename gives me the directory name.
openDialog.FileNam

Answer 1

Private Sub Command135_Click()

Dim dialog As Object
Dim pickedfile As Boolean
Dim myfile As String
Set dialog = Application.FileDialog(1)
With dialog
    .AllowMultiSelect = False
    .Title = "Please pick the file to convert."
    .Filters.Clear
    .Filters.Add "Picture Files", "*.Jpg"
    .Filters.Add "All Files", "*.*"
    pickedfile = False
    pickedfile = .Show
    If pickedfile Then
    myfile = .SelectedItems.Item(1)
    End If
End With

Me.Form.Picture = myfile
End Sub


Command_135=Button Name
Me.Form.Picture = "The Control Name"

Answer 2

You want:

OpenDialog.SelectedItems.Item(1)

In place of:

OpenDialog.InitialFileName

As you have not allowed multiselect.

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So:

''Reference Microsoft Office x.x Object Library
Dim openDialog As Office.FileDialog

Set openDialog = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)
openDialog.Filters.Clear
openDialog.Filters.Add "JPEG Files", "*.jpg"

If openDialog.Show Then
    ''SelectedItems is not zero based

    ''Do not use .Text property in MS Access except
    ''in special cases, then you will not have to set focus
    ''txtImageName.SetFocus

    txtImageName = openDialog.SelectedItems(1)
End If

If AllowMultiSelect is used, you need to iterate through SelectedItems

''Reference Microsoft Office x.x Object Library
Dim openDialog As Office.FileDialog
Dim i As Integer

Set openDialog = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)
'Use ctl or shift + click to select more than one file
openDialog.AllowMultiSelect = True
openDialog.Filters.Clear
openDialog.Filters.Add "JPEG Files", "*.jpg"

If openDialog.Show Then
    For i = 1 To openDialog.SelectedItems.Count
        Imagelst = Imagelst & ";" & openDialog.SelectedItems(i)
    Next
End If

Answer 3

I needed to select a single text file... this is what I did... it worked fine.

' Get the File
'----------------------------------------------------------
Dim dialog As Object
Dim pickedfile As Boolean
Dim myfile As String
Set dialog = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)
With dialog
    .AllowMultiSelect = False
    .Title = "Please pick the file to convert."
    .Filters.Clear
    .Filters.Add "Text Files", "*.TXT"
    .Filters.Add "All Files", "*.*"
    pickedfile = False
    pickedfile = .Show
    If pickedfile Then
    myfile = .SelectedItems.Item(1)
    End If
End With
'----------------------------------------------------------

Additionally... you can replace the dialog type with...

Set dialog = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogOpen)

and it worked equally well.